The world has been given a rare glimpse inside one in every of Brazil’s most famous slums, where people brandish guns and grenades like fashion accessories and sell drugs in open-air markets at “crazy” prices.
YouTube travel vlogger Timmy Karter has gained unprecedented access to an infamous shantytown generally known as a favela situated in the north of Rio de Janeiro.
A censored clip from his nearly 70-minute vlog – deemed too controversial for YouTube – has surfaced behind the paywall, showing Karter stopping at a gang-run drug street market in the center of a favela.
Within the video, Karter captures the moments where he’s unbelievably offered grams of marijuana, cocaine and “perfume” from the smorgasbord of medication on the market on the tables, similar to fruit and veggies sold on the market.
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The once-hidden clip begins with Karter riding his motorcycle, hiding the camera between himself and the rider after being warned he “cannot film here” as they drive into “probably the most dangerous place in the entire favela”.
“Oh my god. Guys, what I’m seeing now could be from a movie. Holy shit, I can not film this,” he could be heard saying.
The video then shows him in a drug market, the camera is pointed at tables filled with hard drugs being sold in the favela – vendors from local gangs ask him to film their logos (the one Karter shoots, “CV”, was one in every of the “biggest criminal organizations in Brazil” “) and offer him drugs.
But it surely wasn’t just the incredible display of medication at a neighborhood display, it was the “crazy” price at which the drugs were being sold.
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The cocaine, one in every of the vendors told him, cost $4 for 3 grams – which in Brazilian reals translates to about A$1.22 – which shocked Karter.
“Brother, in London – I worked in London – guess how much it could cost? (For) three grams of cocaine? he asked the gangster as an alternative.
“Tell me how much!” replied the person.
“About $200,” said Karter, or about $374.
In other words, in accordance with the YouTuber’s calculations: three grams of cocaine in London costs 50 times greater than cocaine in the Brazilian ghetto. That is a 5,000 percent price increase.
The revelation also surprised a drug dealer who made an astonishing suggestion to Karter: “Then it is best to buy it here and sell it in Europe!”
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“I’m not a salesman, brother! I’ll find yourself in prison!” Karter replied to which the drug dealer said “the police are mf-ers”.
While he’s on the market square, one other man hands the YouTuber something and asks if he wants “Zorro”, explaining “it’s perfume” – or as social media users explained under the clip, a sweet-smelling drug that’s inhaled or sprayed.
“It was crazy. It was from a movie, man,” Karter said as they rode off on the bike.
“They were selling all the pieces conceivable. The people were super cool. I do not know if I’ll ever get it to YouTube, oh my god.”
The YouTuber was also shocked that “everyone” had “massive, huge guns … even grenades.”
Because the uncensored clip circulated on social media, people from Brazil and world wide wondered concerning the “wild” market and the “crazy” drug prices.
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Some claimed the short clip was “just the tip of the iceberg” in Brazil’s favelas, that are considered hotbeds of gang activity, violence, drug trafficking and extreme poverty.
“Drug traffic now dominates all of Rio’s favelas and most of its suburbs, in some places they’ve roadblocks on the streets to forestall the police from entering, and in some places they even control the web by offering their very own services,” one user wrote.
One other simply wrote: “That is the fact of the state of Rio de Janeiro and town of Rio de Janeiro.”
Karter said he was confused concerning the “crazy” situation, but said in the clip “that is the fact of a favela”.
And while he was shocked by what he saw and the chance he took to film his day and night in the favela, the Greek resident said there’s nothing higher than hiring an area to indicate you around a city inside a city.
“When you ever go to Brazil, I strongly recommend finding an area and exploring the favelas to mingle with the locals,” he wrote.
“It will provide you with an ideal perspective on how people live in other parts of the world, and you will notice each side of the coin – the positive and negative sides of living in a Brazilian favela!”