2004 General Reports

[Trippleecks]

O Globo should first look to their own classified advertisement section. They advertise termas, hookers, transsexual hookers, Bars like Barbarellas and massage parlors. Talk about selective one sided reporting.

[webgpsp]

This text was translated by Google, but I think you can understand


O Globo News Paper
Feb - 20 - 2004

Brasilian Police goes to investigate sites with guide of prostituion in Rio

Tourists start to receive brochures alerting for crime

The sites that sell guides of sexual adventures in Rio are in the aiming of the federal Public prosecution service. The agency announced yesterday that it goes to investigate the pages in the InterNet that offer to the foreign tourist detailed scripts showing the way shortest to arrive at the Carioca prostitutes, as it disclosed the GLOBE. according to solicitor-head of the General Office of the attorney general of the Republic, Carlos Alberto Aguiar, the MP can direct to Brazilian Justice an order to the government of the United States to remove of air the sites shown in the news article.



These sites are an instrument for the practical one of a crime (aiding to prostitution, with penalty of two the five years)? Aguiar said.



The opening of the inquiry was asked for by the representative Jandira Feghali (PCdoB) and by the State chairman of the board of the Rights of the Woman, Martha Rock. In the representation it delivers to the solicitor-head yesterday was annexed a copy of the news article.



For the denounced site, that arrives to suggest a script of eight days of sexual adventures in the River, what it does not lack is competition. In a research in the InterNet, it is possible to arrive until the one page that if intitles?o official site of Rio De Janeiro. The page, paid, has its version of the guide of adventures: the River Rookie Guide (Guide of the Freshmen of the River), stuffed with photos of naked women in Carioca landscapes.

[XXL]

Police raids: no laughing matter

Rio will no become a prostitution-free zone overnight, nor will other Brazilian cities. However, make no mistake about it, the wind that is now blowing is the chill wind of feminism and the years of Brazil as a pussy haven are counted.

What is new is not police meddling. Police meddle with prostitution in most countries, and usually they just want to increase the pressure on sex operators and squeeze out a bigger share of the money.

What is new here is that the police chief in charge of anti-sex operations is a woman, and that expressions such as "sexual exploitation" and "fighting sexual slavery" are now common. Same rhetoric as in Europe 15 years ago, before European night-life went down the drain.

Of course, Brazil still looks like a man's paradise, but this is because our own country looks more and more like a Guantanamo run by women.

xxl

[Maxam]

Hey guys,

I'm going to Brazil for the first time in late March/ early April.

A couple of quick questions.

Does anyone know what Easter week is like in Rio? Are the clubs and termas closed by any chance? What about crowds and prices for accomadations, do they go up like during Carnival?

I have options to go before or after Easter, might it be better to travel then?

Also, I want to travel within Brazil using Airpass. Any advise on preferences between using Tam or Varig, as to delays or quality of service.

I posted these questions on the Rio reports thread and got no replies, so any and all
advice would be very appreciated. I promise to post some informative reports on my return, since I have gained so much myself on this great board.

Thanks in advance

[Kenn]

Rastaman, yea, you know how accurate newspapers are. Why check the facts, write whatever the hell you want.... who will know?

I looked at the website you provided and .......... here are the stats..... Octopus is No. 1, the largest Yacht n the world..

1. OCTOPUS • L: 413'4"; Y: 2003
In a game of inches, every single one counts—and in the case of this yacht, there are 4,960 of them. To put it another way, Octopus beats Savarona (see no. 2) for the top spot on our list by a mere 64 inches. It could actually be more, as we’ve heard Octopus’ LOA could be 120 meters (the length given above) or even 127 meters (416'7").

[Kenn]

Guess who's coming to Rio??

Two of the world’s richest men will arrive in Rio soon on board the largest yacht on the planet. The Octopus, a 140-foot yacht belonging to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen should arrive in Rio on the 18th and with him will be the president of Microsoft, Bill Gates. Gates is the richest man in the world with a fortune of more than US$ 55 billion and, according to Forbes, Allen is number four, with US$ 25 billion.

Among his guests for Carnival will be the slightly less wealthy bodybuilder, movie star and now Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver who will arrive on a private 767 jet. The couple was at the Sambódromo for the parade in 2001. This time they will have the added attraction of Allen’s yacht moored in Botafogo Bay with its movie theater, music studio and two helicopters.

[Trippleecks]

With the thousands of girls working the program and the many thousands of guys here for the program they only managed to arrest ONE guy and 7 minors!! I don't think they are really trying hard to inforce anything. Just a dog and pony show to show the news media they are cracking down. I bet you will not hear too much if anything more about this.

[Rio Bob]

RIO - Na madrugada desta quinta, a polícia civil deu prosseguimento à Operação Carnaval numa blitz realizada em bares e boates de Copacabana. A operação - que foi iniciada na segunda-feira - tem como objetivo combater a prostituição e foi iniciada após uma reportagem no jornal "O Globo", que mostrava a prostituição nas areias da praia.

Nesta quinta-feira, a delegada Monique Vidal comandou as operações em boates como a Pussycat, a New Munich e a Holliday. Prostitutas e menores foram detidas. A boate Holliday foi fechada por *** quatro quartos.

Na segunda-feira, um homem foi preso e oito menores que estavam se prostituindo em frente a uma boate, no Posto 5, em Copacabana foram detidos. Se for compravado o envolvimento de barraqueiros nos agenciamentos de mulheres na praia, eles serão presos e perderão suas licenças.

Well looks like they raided some clubs in the Lido section the other night, they also closed Holiday and I don't think anybody is going to cry over that one. They also raided the Pussy cat and the new munich and took away the minors. Some people I spoke to who are there now seem to think they do this every year during Carnival and things should get back to normal after Carnival again.

[RCA Knight]

To JustGotBack:

If you like the Germanic Nordic type, go down south.

There are quite few very fun cities with tons of this type.

Florianopolis, Curitiba, Joinville, Blumenau, Porto Alegre, ect, you will have no trouble finding the Nordic look in all the night spots.

[Bimmerman]

Spidy

If you read this post, will you please check your PM box for my message.

Thanks.

[Big Bubba]

Yahoo news had a nice report talking about police trying to stop mongers .

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040211/wl_nm/crime_brazil_prostitution_dc_1

Good luck mongers with the sherekas o buzetas :-)

Big Bubba!

[Rio Bob]

The campaign launched Monday to combat the work of pimps and prostitutes in Rio during Carnival resulted in the arrest of seven minors and a 42-year-old man, Chagas Praxedes, in Copacabana on Tuesday night. Police are monitoring the beach, the boardwalk and nightclubs in the area in an attempt to minimize prostitution and the exploitation of minors. Law enforcement sources commented that pimps already appear to have diminished their activities because of police pressure.

The State Government is also preparing a campaign including T-shirts, pamphlets and posters to warn tourists that prostitution is a crime and particularly that sex with a minor is punishable by a four to ten year prison term. The combat against the exploitation of children and adolescents is being considered a priority. The city department that regulates beachfront kiosks has suspended the licenses of at least six kiosk owners who are accused of participating in prostitution schemes. The names of the kiosks were not released and they are said to be operating normally while they prepare their defense.

For more on the story, click here.

[Rio Bob]

The Secretary of Public Safety and three police stations have joined their forces to repress the work of pimps and prostitutes in Rio during Carnival. The campaign was launched Monday morning and includes a team of at least 50 officers, from specialized police stations that caters to tourists, entertainment activities and children and adolescents.

Authorities explained that they are aware that the campaign will not end prostitution, but believe the joined effort will minimize the problem in the city, particularly in regards to the exploitation of minors. Yesterday, Edvaldo dos Santos was arrested in Copacabana offering prostitutes to tourists. He carried a catalog that displayed pictures of half-naked women and girls, one of them clearly less than 10 years old.

The business of prostitution on the oceanfront is also fed by beaches vendors. In addition to overcharging tourists, many times they offer women, working as middle-men in the deals. In return, prostitutes stimulate clients to purchase drinks and food. There has also been reports of minor thefts against tourists committed by prostitutes.

[Charly]

Thanks Andres!

If I got it right however, the measures by the Rio police are just aimed at those offering the tourists prostitutes by showing them catalogues, right? In that case I am totally with the Rio police! Can't stand those guys with their catalogues: the girl they show you is never the one you get! Get them behind bars!

I also absolutely condemn child prostitution. Therefore I think the Clarin article (directed at argentinian mongerers but explicitly naming European mongerers! he he he) is good news for us!

I believe the measures themselves are just an alibi for the Rio police (and Garotinho and his wife maybe) to show the world how bad and immoral prostitution in Brazil is - and they are doing this during carnaval of course! Everybody's guess what will happen to the measures AFTER carnaval.

A flyer at the airports, saying that they don't like mongerers in their cities? Yeah right - that will help them lot - until the next elections

[Member #4211]

warning about rio.

info published in clarin of buenos aires, related to anti-prostitution measures by rio police (sorry, no time to translate it)

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http://www.clarin.com/diario/hoy/t-705679.htm

brasil lanza un operativo contra el turismo sexual en las playas de río

arranca el lunes y se denomina “operación carnaval”. en menos de una semana hubo tres denuncias del crecimiento del turismo sexual en américa latina. lo practican 600 millones de personas.

la policía civil de río de janeiro (http://www.policiacivil.rj.gov.br), brasil, anunció que desde la semana próxima una nueva división de esa fuerza combatirá la explotación sexual en las playas cariocas. el jefe de la policía civil, alvaro lins, señaló que la nueva división actuará desde el próximo lunes en locales donde se ejerce la prostitución, como por ejemplo saunas y boites, y también en las playas de río de janeiro, para aprehender a quienes ofrecen prostitutas a turistas a través de catálogos con fotografías.

“la división de fiscalización podrá multar y cerrar los lugares donde se incentive la explotación sexual y comenzará a actuar antes del carnaval para combatir esa práctica, sobre todo en copacabana", explicó el jefe policial. el anuncio (http://www.policiacivil.rj.gov.br/noticia.asp?id=1033) tuvo lugar un día después de que un informe periodístico revelara el funcionamiento de los "prostíbulos a cielo abierto" que proveen prostitutas a los turistas, en su mayoría europeos, en las tradicionales playas de copacabana.

el informe publicado en brasil coincide con uno similar que apareció en guatemala este fin de semana, y que registra un aumento en casos de explotación en turismo sexual contra menores de edad en todo centroamérica. “guatemala se ha vuelto un país donde ha aumentado la explotación sexual de niñas y adolescentes por nacionales y extranjeros", denunció maría villareal, la directora de la asociación contra la explotación sexual de niños en guatemala (http://www.ecpat.net/es/index.asp). por su parte, el director regional de la ong internacional casa alianza (www.casa-alianza.org) bruce harris explicó que “muchos turistas buscan lugares donde hay pobreza, corrupción, leyes débiles para practicar el turismo sexual”.

también la ong "save the children" (salven a los niños) presentó la semana pasada una denuncia sobre el incremento en el abuso sexual a menores de edad. “el llamado turismo sexual es practicado por unos 600 millones de personas, generalmente provenientes del mundo desarrollado, que viajan a países acosados por la miseria y el subdesarrollo donde encuentran fácilmente a sus víctimas”. de esos 600 millones de "turistas sexuales" unos 3.552.000 reconocen abiertamente sus tendencias pedófilas, que practican incluso con niños de corta edad.

los turistas -italianos, alemanes, franceses- se instalan en las playas frente a los hoteles más lujosos de la zona, donde son abordados por hombres que les ofrecen un "menú", con fotografías de mujeres, para que elijan su preferida. "el sexo a la carta es el arma más novedosa de la industria informal del turismo sexual de río, que rinde millones para el mercado clandestino y nada para la economía de la ciudad", afirmó el informe publicado el domingo por el diario o globo.

también para erradicar esa práctica, la comisión de derechos humanos de la asamblea legislativa de río está elaborando un “código de conducta” para los turistas que lleguen a la ciudad.

“la idea es dejar claro a quienes nos visiten que repudiamos el turismo sexual, a través de folletos explicativos a ser distribuidos en puertos y aeropuertos de la ciudad”, explicó el presidente de esa comisión, alessandro molon, del partido de los trabajadores.