Where's the Outrage?

Brazil is in the process of building miles of concrete barriers to prevent slums from expanding in and around Rio de Janeiro. The local government there is building concrete walls to prevent sprawling slums from spreading farther into the picturesque hills of this world-famous tourist destination.

Ace helpfully puts together a list of what qualifies as a good wall versus the ones that are bad. Israel's border fences to prevent terrorists from infiltrating Israel to kill Israelis gets all the press these days, except when the media focuses on the US attempts to control its border to prevent Mexican drug gangs from crossing the border and causing mayhem in US cities and communities up and down the border there.

Yet, there's barely a ripple in the media's interest about Brazil's actions to contain the slums of Rio with massive fences. Where's the world's outrage? Where's the shreiks from the human rights groups about the Brazilian regime's move to curtail the movement of its own citizens?