“Thirty percent of Brazilians live in favelas,” says Michael David Lynch, proprietor of Albergue Pedras da Sereia in Salvador ... and the abysmal gap between Brazil’s rich and poor.

The writer Itamar Vieira Junior says that to “feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador” in Bahia, Brazil ... on the streets and on the beaches around the Bay of All Saints.

San Salvador - but according to Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Grafica, locals believe it used to be a hotel called Hotel Puerto Ventura, reportedly built on the beach so tourists could feel ...