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To: hecticskeptic
Haven't been to Brazil but have traveled in Columbia. The (I suppose you could call them favelas too) slums are mind-boggling; shantys and makeshift houses jumbled together in some sort of weird approximation of a city gone berserk.
48 posted on 06/09/2020 7:02:50 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: OpusatFR
Haven't been to Brazil but have traveled in Columbia. The (I suppose you could call them favelas too) slums are mind-boggling….

Lots of slums in the countries of South America. I don’t think any of the other countries call them favelas and this probably is because the language of Brazil is Portuguese… in Peru, they are called pueblos jóvenes (which translates as young towns… some of them are not young anymore but so the name harks back to when they were created) and in Chile they call the campamento (which I think means ‘mushroom’ because of how fast they have sprung up). You mentioned Columbia…. in Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá the term that most commonly gets used is ‘comunas’ or ‘barrios de invasion’…. which is translated as “neighbourhoods of invasion”.

51 posted on 06/09/2020 8:34:56 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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