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Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache
People with a secure position in society don't form street gangs.
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You´re wrong, we´re not talking about Central America
Maras, we´re talking about organized crime. Just like the russian mafia or mexican drug cartels.
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And no this doesn't make it "safe" again. They've just created a vacuum that will shortly be filled by the next gang, and they're going to go into it even more violently then the last one. Unless they just bulldozed the entire favela and built proper housing over it. And even if they did that, they'd have a shitload of displaced impoverished people. Wonder what they would do to survive then? Oh right, commit more crimes.
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Dude, in the favelas you´ll find the criminals and gangster, but many people are honest and hardworking (in fact, there are more workers than criminals). The Alemao was an example of that: a gang controlling an entire zone. Once you defeat the gangs, the police and later the goverment controls the area. Just think about your neighborhood after 20 years with no government presence or police.
Oh, and about the bulldozing, there´s a plan being developed since Lula´s government to urbanize the favelas. But seriously, can you build schools, houses and streets while everything is being controlled by gangs? I don´t think so.
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You're still not going to need an entire battalion of mechanized infantry to do it.
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You realize that you need mechanized infantry when your enemy can shoot down helicopters... (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjywM4BBpE )