Brazil is a series of contradictions. Unemployment is low. A decade of heady growth and Progressive Social policies reduced discrepancies between rich and poor where half the population is middle class. But the hundreds of thousands of People Living in poverty in rios shantytowns have been left behind. Concrete and medical tall shacks perch one top another on the hillsides. They are the locust of much of the violence. Gang on gang, militia object gang and gang on militia violence confirm cultural notions of hyper masculinity. Brazilian culture is ripe with violence from the petty criminals to the drug cartels to the government. Brazil claims the globes seventh highest homicide rate. Violence and murder remained high even though the police started to rest control of the villas from the drug lords in advance of brazil hosting the 2014 world cup and rio hosting the 2016 summer olympics. In the socalled pass indication movement poorly trained low paid military police used tanks helicopter