*Rare to see TV reporters venture into a favela and show us around.
*You have to wonder how many former media employees are living
in spaces like this right now.
*Note that the area is saturated with TVs, and there's no question that
everybody in there has a mobile. Note also the plethora of fans,
refrigerators, and injection-molded plastic kitchen items. Those
are very modern spaces, even trending toward the glossy-futuristic.
*That cheery 90-year-old, he's got "Aging Broke Baby Boomer"
written all over him.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/28/cage.homes/index.html