A young Argentinian woman traveled to Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, together with her friends to receive the New Year. However, as soon as they arrived at the apartment they had rented they met with an unexpected sight. “When you don’t see before the location where you are going to rent”pointed out the young woman, named Agustina Tomé, and shared a video in which one of her friends is seen from behind, in front of an window with the curtains closed.
The striking thing happens at the moment of opening the curtains and revealing the particular landscape that awaited them on the other side: a favelaas precarious neighborhoods are called in Brazil.
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“I was three nights in Rio there. At first I was scared because one is not used to it, but then we got used to it and everything is fine“said the young woman in dialogue with The nation and explained that, in principle, they had not realized the situation.
In this regard, she explained: “The truth is that they (her friends) had noticed the area but had not seen that there was a favela. The side from which you entered was an avenue and you were one block from the beach, it was a very busy areathere were a lot of people all the time.”
“I arrived later than my friends. I was looking at the rooms and when I open the window, on one side the view was fine, but on the other side of the building I closed the blind and there was the favela. With the girls we said: ‘The windows don’t open,'” she added regarding the moment they discovered what was on the other side of the window.
At the same time, clarified that the apartment was on the seventh floor and that the building was safe: “You had a doorbell that had a camera to let you in, a 24-hour security guy inside.”
In any case, the young woman decided to take the situation with humor and take the opportunity to make a video that later became viral on TikTokwhere he accompanied the recording with an audio fragment from the Hannah Montana film, when the artist gets off a plane believing that she had arrived in New York and was really in the middle of a field.
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The short video of the experience of the young women in Rio has so far, in just two days, more than 1,500,000 reproductions and more of 176 thousand likes.
Of course, the users of the popular social network did not take long to react to the video and leave all kinds of comments joking regarding it. “I don’t even go out to buy water”He launched one of them and another added: “I’m not even going out to come back.”
“I got out of there already,” warned another user, to which a girl alerted: “Sister, you are in the favelas”. “I’m going to cry. It’s very dangerous,” said another girl.
There was no shortage of those who decided to continue with the jokes and commented: “Brazil, but at what cost?“Okay, but you have bars” and “Private neighborhood, the ad said: deprived of electricity, deprived of gas…”.
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