THE TELEGRAPH (paraphrased): Rio’s ‘wall of shame’ between its ghettos and shiny Olympic image – “As the first of 10,000 athletes start to arrive in Rio on Sunday, they will pass the vivid posters, pasted onto a 10 foot high barrier, stretching for five miles along the motorway out of the international airport. But the colorful partition hides the inequality that polarizes the Olympic city as it prepares to welcome the world. Behind the barrier lies Maré, a complex of 16 favela communities where life goes on under gang rule except for when under-resourced police carry out increasingly frequent, bloody raids. First erected as a Perspex fence along the Red Line motorway in 2010 – purportedly as an “acoustic barrier” – organizers have spent more than R$200,000 covering the wall ahead of the Games, claiming it is a decoration and not a disguise. Indeed, in Nova Holanda, one of the communities that sits alongside the motorway and where drug traffickers man a makeshift checkpoint at the entrance, there is no sign of the Olympic spirit…Wedged between two parallel main roads ,Nova Holanda – home to around 30,000 people – is visible from the motorway only through the occasional missed panel in the barrier (42).