For several months between 2013 and 2014, British journalist and crime investigator Misha Glenny lived in Rocinha, a colossal shanty-town of almost 70,000 people south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Speaking at WIRED 2015 in London's Tobacco Dock, Glenny told that his goal was making sense of Brazil, "a country imprisoned by stereotypes such as the wonderful Copacabana beach and the girl from Ipanema". Those clichés Glenny said, end up concealing both Brazil’s enormous potential (it’s the seventh largest global economy), and its darker side of brutal inequality and drug-fuelled violence (10 percent of the world murders happen there.)
By: Gian Volpicelli,
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