City of Men

I thought the show that we watched in class today was very interesting. I didn't know Brazil had areas that were so bad. I knew various islands in the West Indies had poor areas in them, but I never thought there would be one that would look and be so bad. The part that jumped out to me the most was the fact that young men and young boys were the protectors of their part of town. I feel like it's ridiculous that they are able to walk around town with weapons like that. What is their country really doing? They are only thinking bout the wealthy people or forgetting or ignoring the poor folks that really need some kind of help.