What Really Happened in Brazil's Slums After the Olympics Left Town | Joe Rogan and Ben Anderson

I've talked to a friend of mine who's from Brazil who has a completely different take on the new leader of Brazil Like he's more positive about it and I've talked to other people that say he's a monster. Yeah I mean if people in Brazil are living through the current chaos I can understand why they might go to a Duterte type figure to say it's gonna be messy But he's gonna clean it up right, but he certainly seems like a monster Yeah, and they they're experiencing some crazy economic crisis as well Yeah, and it was the fastest growing economy in Latin America was booming. Yeah, it was just a few years ago Yeah, so it's like this roller coaster ride. We did a film there recently and I might might get the numbers slightly wrong But the amount of people that were murdered in Brazil in 2017 I believe it was was double more than double the amount that were murdered in Syria Jesus yeah, right. It was 72,000 Yeah, and after the World Cup in Olympics the the trafficking gangs and the police militias Just retook all of those areas that were pacified to you know protect the tourists during the World Cup Olympics So that violence has just come right back to the fellas Sit again, there's just so much shit to pay attention to yeah, and Rio the image of Rio is still you know Samba on the beach. Yeah, I've been a few times right. Yeah, I've been for UFC events It's beautiful people very nice very friendly, but then you go two or three miles up into the hills Yeah, it's another world well We drove when you land at the airport you drive through the favelas on the way to Rio and you're like whoa this is uh this is a different kind of poverty and During the World Cup Olympics they put billboards next to that road to block the view of the favelas did they really and those billboards And now starting to fall apart and you can now see in again Yeah, well and you can hear it if you if you stay close to there you'll hear I mean we went into the villa Favelas many times we saw one guy who was suspected of being a police informer So the the trafficking gangs had captured him slashed at his leg So he was lying on the ground put four rifles to his head and just unloaded And his chin was still kind of where it should be but everything else was this is when you you got there well We got there right afterwards. Sorry. No, we didn't witness it happening and we got there right afterwards But yeah, it's it's I mean hideous violence there on a massive scale Yeah, and also I got into an argument song the other day about this Deeply racist You know the rich people in Ipanema tend to be white European descendants the poor kids getting shot in the favelas Almost all black and if you walk into a bar in Ipanema with a black girl Everyone will assume she's a prostitute if you walk into a bar in Ipanema with a black guy everyone will assume he's a drug dealer And again the exact opposite of the public image of Brazil Ipanema is the more wealthy area because there is yeah, that's the very that's that's the very wealthy nice beach Area with all the nice hotels and apartment blocks, but they still must get robbed all the time down there, right? It used to be that the violence was separated from the really rich areas But there are now a lot of wealthy Brazilians leaving because it's it's it's affecting everywhere now I mean that the one of the experts we interviewed in the last film said I believe it was one in three Rio residents will get caught in crossfire at some point over the course of a year I Might be wrong with that. I believe it was one or three. Yeah, but it was a massive massive number. Yeah Yeah, I Mean if you're anywhere near a favela you'll hear it most nights You'll hear shots being fired most nights and not like boom boom boom. You know you'll hear a fight going on Jesus Christ How much time do you spend over there three weeks I believe it was Wow And what are you covering? We did a film about the pacification campaign the police and army clearing the favelas before the World Cup Olympics So we went back just to see just to sort of illuminate it for people to think that this is what Brazil is actually like And see what yeah what happened afterwards right and those areas were abandoned as soon as the World Cup Olympics were over