Rio has become a warzone?? Inspired by the famous Iraq Body Count site, two Rio residents - system analyst Vinicius Costa, 25, and cartoonist André Dahmer, 32, with the help of five other volunteers has started a Rio Body Count site on 1st February 2007, with intention to wake up Rio's population from its complacency and to the war zone that the town has become. More link.
As a foreigner working in Rio, I would say this site does serve its purpose as a warning alarm, both to the citizens and the government. However, the idea might be brilliant but it isnt the solution to the many problems this country is facing. With decades of inequality in income distrubution & corruption, Brazil has a long long war to fight.
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