Brazilian Carnival continues.

The five-day carnival, with its famous marches, extravagant dance performances and street party starts on Saturday. Since then, the attention of local residents and tourists drawn to the television audience many drummers and dancers.
Virtually all residents and visitors of Rio pleasure plunged into the festive atmosphere of carnival, at the time, forgetting about the problems. On the night of Sunday in the parade for the first time since taking office, attended the President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
To ensure the safety of participants in the carnival to the streets took over 9800 police officers, but despite that tourists should still be cautious. To date, the victims of the robbers were about a hundred people, most of them were subjected to armed attacks. Thus, only for one morning, thieves, threatening with pistols, robbed of cash, iPod portable devices and cameras with almost 50 tourists. Despite the best efforts of authorities to reduce crime to a minimum, that it is the biggest stumbling block on the way to conquering the city of Carnival capital of the Olympics in 2016.
Foreign visitors, in turn, say they were warned of the risk, but even he did not dissuade them to participate in the grand event. Thus, the 35-year-old tourist from Italy Spagnolatti Thomas said in an interview that the presence in most tourist areas are safe. Tourists in London also noted that the need to always be vigilant and not to carry too many valuables.
With regard specifically festivities, the fun in Rio is already in full swing. According to the decision of the authorities during the carnival celebrations, visitors will hand over 59 million free condoms, as unbridled joy, alcohol and virtually no clothes «contribute debauchery».
It should be noted that the festive events taking place these days in all parts of the Rio de Janeiro. So, last Saturday at a hotel on Copacabana beach parties carnival party on equal terms in the regular visitors have become a star of Brazilian TV, top models, as well as industrial and financial tycoons.