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| Fair Play for the favelas? |
German weekly Die Zeit reports from Rio de Janeiro on the likely measures the city will take to clean up its favelas – the slum areas notorious for poverty, drugs and gang warfare – ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
Ricardo Teixeira, FIFA Executive Committee member, head of the Brazilian Football Association, and a man accused last month by the BBC’s Panorama of taking bribes during the 1990s while awarding TV contracts for the rights to the World Cup, promises that the “necessary normality will rule” by the time of the 2013 Confederations Cup, and the competition itself the following year.
How will the government bring about this necessary normality? “Pacification measures,” reports Die Zeit, and quotes a frank local tourist guide, Sergio Castro, as outlining the coming crackdown:
