...During a visit to a Rio de Janeiro slum, President Barack Obama joined a group of children as they kicked around soccer balls...
Brazil's 'City of God' embraces Obama
by By Taylor Barnes
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / On a dirty rooftop littered with soda bottles, Anderlucia Nogueira began to complain, loudly, about Barack Obama, despite the fact that a handful of snipers were staked out on the roof next door to guard the US president. Under a cloud of secrecy, Mr. Obama was visiting her favela (shantytown), the once crime-ridden City of God made famous in a 2002 film of the same name. His two-day visit to Brazil, part of his first presidential trip to South America that will also include stops in Chile and El Salvador, began Saturday in Brasília when he met his counterpart before flying on to Rio de Janeiro with his wife and daughters...[continued]
