Australian's drunken jaunt in Rio favela

By Dom Phillips
Updated August 22 2019 - 9:58am, first published 9:53am
Rio's favelas are notorious for drug gang violence.
Rio's favelas are notorious for drug gang violence.

An Australian tourist has spent hours with armed drug gang members in one of Rio's battle-scarred favelas after asking an Uber driver to take him to the most dangerous one in the city.

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