6O 000 people arrive each year in Santiago, we must accommodate them. So as in all major Brazilian cities, these migrants settled in the slums of illegal construction on hillsides. President Lulla has done recently "clean up" these neighborhoods plagued by trafficking of all kinds. Some slums are visited by 4x4, on foot or bike. Some associations also organize humanitarian visits, the profits are then donated to schools and clinics. The biggest samba schools from the favelas, like many artists and musicians;
Finally, our guide Hector explains that some of these neighborhoods are also very popular, now have water and electricity and become so much nicer to live than HLM huge bars that we lined.
The concern is the distance to downtown: public transport are rare, slow and expensive. Hector showed us the first and only line of elevated railway, the site is open for ten years and still not flowing lower subway!
The photos were taken in the evening while returning from a visit to El Salvador: the sun is certainly photogenic, but ...
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