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I lived in Recife / Brazil for many years, despite not being Brazilian, I think I have a great connection to the country so critical when I have to criticize, I have to praise when praise and do not weigh the consciousness to be talking about good or bad the country. Normally I do not speak ill of the places where I live, I accept and adapt the questions to me.
Recife is considered the ninth city in Brazil in population density, this dimension Recife gave a status not so nice, that is to be among the most violent cities in Brazil.
In March 2007 a group of journalists created a blog called PEBodyCount initiative is a polemic, but it portrays the reality of the state.
The blog has a counter where daily updated 12:00 quantities homicide the day of the week is the year.
Today day 26/06/2009 16:00 GMT Ace the counter has recorded:
- 9 deaths / day
- 247 deaths / month
- 2078 deaths / from 01/01/2008
To complement and draw more attention, a college Pernambuco sponsored the installation of a digital counter dead in the streets of Recife. ( Location )
Digital Counter homicide
Of the last times I was there whenever he passed the street, had the curiosity to see how many people died ... Yes, it's morbid, but unfortunately is the reality and the pernambucanos learned to live with it.
The installation of the meter is the information itself divides the blog, I asked some friends who live there, "What felt to have a quotation of the dead who live in the city?". Some ridiculed the initiative saying it was more an act of publicity of college and an exaggeration of the journalists. Others thought it portrayed the pure and sad reality of the state is asked to install more meters in the city.
But as Reginaldo Rossi in one of his songs. "Recife has one thousand charms. It's ... It's a little piece of Brazil is a tropical paradise ... "
In other posts I shall also speak of the good side of Recife.
