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The World in Images
Season 5 · Episode 69
Favela tourism: Can poverty become a vacation video?
0.011mJune 11, 2026
Filmed by drone in a Rio favela, a tourist walks through a landscape littered with corrugated iron and concrete. These viral videos, designed for online platforms, reignite the debate about tourism in the favelas: between a spectacle of misery and a reflection of a grim social reality.
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