RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — They call it an invasion. In the early hours of March 23, hundreds of people from this city’s massive Alemao complex of shantytowns streamed into a closed-down factory on one of the slum’s main streets. The former Tuffy Habib factory, a plastics plant owned by a Brazilian businessman of the same name, ceased
WATCH: This Is What ‘Occupy’ Looks Like In A Rio Slum
Thousands of poor Brazilians are sheltering in squalid quarters in an abandoned plastics factory in the Alemao favela complex because they say their slum became too expensive.
作者 Will Carless