Rio Dog

NAME: Unknown
LOCATION: Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

According to the CIA World Factbook, Brazil is the country with the seventh-greatest inequality of income in the world (behind only Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone and Bolivia). And nowhere is the gap between rich and poor clearer than on Ipanema Beach. By day, it's a parade of Rio's wealthiest citizens - volleyballing musclemen (do they not have jobs to go to?) and incredible women wearing dental-floss thongs. At night, it's the haunt of the dregs and the deranged. We also found this poor chap. Homeless, and a bit thin. He was friendly though. Probably on the hungry side...