"My dream is that someone who grew up in a favela and trained in a favela could inspire other kids in favelas," de Oliveira said.
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Several of Torres's family members came to the hospital but were unable to stay, says Robles-Favela, whose husband, David Favela, showed up to bring them food.
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But Miranda said the favela is more dangerous than ever.
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Meanwhile, life in Rio's favela slums is a little different.
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If you want to go in the favela, fine, that's your problem, but if you're coming out... a middle-class white boy like you coming out of the favela when he's not from here?
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I came from a favela and now I'm in the Olympics.
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Twenty years later, it had become a violent drug-ridden favela.
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That plan would put snipers in helicopters to take out favela gangsters.
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Elliniko was a gritty tent favela beset by fighting and drug dealing.
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"Street Kid, Favela Morro da Providencia, Rio de Janiero, Brasil," by JR, 2008.
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"I think favela tourism is a process of increasingly larger integration," Newman added.
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"He hit her like he was out to kill her," says Robles-Favela.
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"You could see the look of terror on Brenda's face," Robles-Favela says.
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His business near the top of the favela is designed for everyone, he said.
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Few strangers stray inside the slum, or favela, where the gangs impose their law.
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Favela communities stand next to expensive high-rise condos, just streets from suburban neighbourhoods.
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The new cable car system travels over the Complexo do Alemão favela in Rio.
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That does not include favela residents who continue to be caught in the middle.
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The arrival of the first formal public transit was supposed to transform the favela.
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Life in Jacarezinho, a favela in the north of Rio, was "horrible," she said.
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Stefanie Moshammer: It was taken in a favela called Santo Amaro, in Rio de Janeiro.
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Julio Ludemir, the writer who lives in the Babilônia favela, says this is not enough.
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The "here" Newman mentioned is Vidigal, a favela that overlooks the wealthier beaches of Leblon.
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In the favela, there are typically no locks on doors, and everyone knows everyone else.
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Apparently it was shot from a favela, at a police blimp being used for security.
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And in 2011, Rio's gondola, also called a cable car, was inaugurated in the favela.
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Not to be missed is "Gypsy Rose Piñata," by Justin Favela, a Las Vegas artist.
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Adam Newman, the Colorado-born CEO of Favela Experience, is still trying to gauge the demand.
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In 2010, the Brazilian government launched a military operation to clear the favela of drug traffickers.
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It's not just Alemão: A gondola serving the Providência favela has stopped running for similar reasons.
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Another theory is that the bullet came from a favela dweller shooting at a police drone.
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The couple refers to their house with "gorgeous" views of the hills of Hollywood as a favela.
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The trend has continued in Rio with tens of thousands forced out, in often-brutal favela clearances.
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His life is as far from the struggles of the Brazilian favela as any life on Earth.
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During her last campaign, I went to a rally in Jacarezinho [another favela in Rio de Janeiro].
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The first favela to be "pacified" was Santa Marta, a community close to the beaches of Botafogo.
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The favela on the mountainside is a continuation of a wealthier street down below and visa versa.
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You were in Brazil and hung out with the notorious gang Red Command at a Rio favela.
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"Don't let this change you," Robles-Favela says she told Torres as she worked to stop the bleeding.
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IN THE warren of alleyways that make up Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela, the air is heavy with foreboding.
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Activists say this informality protects favela residents from gentrification, as big investors aren't interested in properties lacking titles.
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In Complexo do Alemão, a large northern favela with a young population, it is better schools and jobs.
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A thousand feet away is the crush of Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela, from which Greenwald often hears gunfire.
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In the Gardênia Azul favela, for example, militia members collect money from street vendors and even popcorn carts.
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Según el Data Favela, 94 por ciento de los habitantes de las favelas en Brasil dicen ser felices.
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Siempre visto como un lugar de miseria, la favela también es un lugar de producción, cultura y lucha.
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They're not from the lower class, didn't grow up in a favela and they're not black or brown.
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One of the services the company offers to favela residents renting out their homes is akin to customized consulting.
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In one favela, Vila Kennedy, it has removed barricades put up by gangs to allow state services to enter.
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A neighboring artwork by Justin Favela is mirrored onto a portion of "One-Way Mirror," to visually spectacular effect.
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In Gardênia Azul, a favela near the Olympic Park, a team of health agents does house-to-house visits.
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Final arrest Favela Astorga was the final of seven people accused of Terry's murder to be brought to justice.
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This confluence of circumstances played a big part in giving favela residents a voice in Brazilian and international media.
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Earlier this year, police in Rio de Janeiro's Maré favela shot dead a 250-year-old called Igor Silva.
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Earlier this year, police in Rio de Janeiro's Maré favela shot dead a 245-year-old called Igor Silva.
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Agents of the sanitary department clean streets and alleys of the Vila Ipiranga Favela in Niteroi, Brazil, March 219.
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Hundreds of families used to live alongside a lagoon next to the park, in a favela called Vila Autódromo.
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In 2012 police pacified one favela in particular, Santa Amaro, in order to fight the criminal organization Comando Vermelho (CV).
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The famous rainbow-striped community—the first to be "pacified" by police, in 2008—made favela-visiting a cottage industry.
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According to David Robertson of Catalytic Communities, favela citizens are unfairly stereotyped as being lazy and a detriment to society.
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In Rocinha the UPPs reduced the circulation of heavy weaponry, says Misha Glenny, author of a book about the favela.
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The Globe and Mail reports that the girl told police that she went to her boyfriend's house in a favela.
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"200 of our tiles are embedded in a football pitch in a favela in Rio de Janeiro," Kemball-Cook explains.
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Teixeira has asked the city to fully pave the streets, provide sewerage infrastructure and a health post for the favela.
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Furthermore, by 20153 favela residents were directly quoted in 16 times as many articles as they had been in 2009.
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And her victory really resonated with a lot of people in Brazil, including in the favela where she was raised.
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The ceremony's director — Fernando Meirelles, the famed creator of the acclaimed Rio favela movie City of God — vigorously denied it.
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Furthermore, by 2016 favela residents were directly quoted in 16 times as many articles as they had been in 2009.
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Under the umbrella name "Sustainable Favela Network", the projects help to build resilience and environmental sustainability in favelas, CatComm said.
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"It's much better here than it was in the favela," Braga, a car wash attendant, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"It puts everyone at risk," said Sueli Oliveira, 73, who lives in the Santa Marta favela in Rio de Janeiro.
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But the real baile funk, the one with the sound systems in the favela, no one is getting near that.
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It was a stark contrast from the haphazard allocation of houses in the favela where Nogueira had been born and raised.
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Unfortunately, Brazil's leaders have chosen to ramp up violence against not just drug carriers but also the innocent favela families themselves.
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"It is not for us," she said, gesturing to the favela, with its garbage-strewn streets and lack of sewage treatment.
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In 2003, Canto started Instituto Reação (Reaction Institute), a judo school for all ages and abilities, in Rocinha, Rio's largest favela.
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Torres asked Robles-Favela to come with her to the hospital, where at first, doctors could not detect the baby's heartbeat.
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People watch the Olympic games at a neighborhood cafe on the outskirts of a favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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"It is difficult to establish a hostel inside a favela, with everything that we know goes on in favelas," she said.
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He had learned at an academy, hand-built by his father, in a favela not far from where the competition unfolded.
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"It was a bullet in all of us, an attack on our voice," said Derson Maia, president of the Favela Front.
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What3words has been providing 3 word addresses to Rio's largest favela, Rocinha; just an empty space according to many normal maps.
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Designers had failed to understand mobility patterns through the favela, residents say, and the system didn't reach the most isolated residents.
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Close by, the Triângulo favela community was disrupted to make way for rapid bus lines that were expanded before the Olympics.
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Her master's dissertation, titled "UPP: a redução da favela a três letras" ("UPP: The Decline of the Favela in Three Letters") examined the role of UPPs, Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora (or "Pacifying Police Units," in English), a law enforcement program whose goal was to retake control of the city's favelas that were controlled by drug-dealing gangs.
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"Brazil and Rio de Janeiro have no concept of community policing," said writer Julio Ludemir, who lives in the city's Babilônia favela.
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The video for "Vai Malandra" (roughly, "Go Hustler"), which was filmed in a Rio favela, has been viewed 352m times on YouTube.
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This Op-Doc video takes us into Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's largest favela, to meet its young pipa warriors and elder statesman.
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"I saw a young lady who had suffered a horrible situation and I wanted to do everything I could," Robles-Favela says.
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"Rogério 237", the leader of an ADA faction, has defected to Comando Vermelho, a rival gang, splitting the favela into two territories.
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He's taken me to this favela to show me firsthand the sort of environment that is the perfect breeding ground for Zika.
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Much of the favela population consists of remnants of Brazil's slave trade, creating tension between the nation's black, indigenous, and European populations.
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These include cartoon-bright scenes set in a railway station, a hilltop favela, and a carnival, all intentionally flirting with folkloric kitsch.
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It's less a standard-issue backyard grill than a wood-fired favela, an organic structure that is adapted to meet evolving needs.
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Consistency is hard to find in the favela and kids and adults alike are reluctant to invest their time in transient people.
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Da Penha became a symbol of the resistance to Rio's forcible removal of favela residents in the lead-up to the Olympics.
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Among favela residents, however, the UPPs and the continued aggressive behavior of the city's police force have generated as much criticism as praise.
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"When we go out we don't know whether we will return alive," lamented Cleber Souza, the president of Sítio Joaninha, a former favela.
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People are seen watching the Olympic Games at a neighborhood bar on the outskirts of a favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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"When people have formal titles, they can sell their homes - it's a form of cleansing the favela," Hora told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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After their father died in the western part of the city, the girls' mother moved them to Chacrinha, a favela in northern Rio.
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Through a friend in Brazil, Parks gained access to the Catacumba Favela, then a notorious slum which was demolished after Parks documented it.
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Residents of lush Gávea can expect to live past 80, 13 years longer than their neighbours in Rocinha, a large favela next door.
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Children dancing to samba music during a break at the Miratus Center in Chacrinha, a favela on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
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Over the next decade, the developers plan to build 500 apartments that they say will be affordable to residents of a nearby favela.
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In February, police officers in the Fallet-Fogueteiro favela killed thirteen young men, most of whom were reportedly executed after they had surrendered.
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That's the message sent by the Casa Amarela installation: a silver moon perched atop the building, high above anything else in the favela.
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Maré es tan grande que tiene todos los paisajes que se imaginan de una favela: escaleras empinadas y laberínticas y conjuntos habitacionales rectangulares.
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We have a lot of social problems in the favela, so poor black people like me, we're almost invited to do this job.
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Along with footage from the 1967 favela performance, there is a video of a re-enactment in 2010 projected on a full wall.
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Favela Cloud Imagines the Slums of Rio as Futuristic Architecture Strawscraper: The Future of Sustainable Architecture May Be a Skyscraper Covered in Straws
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Ludemir said that police brutality is one of the reasons why favela residents that had first welcomed the UPPs have since turned against them.
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Cristielle lives in the Vidigal favela, an increasingly popular tourist destination, with multiple hostels and even a boutique hotel overlooking Rio's white-sand beaches.
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Torres begged the man to stop as other passengers moved away and Robles-Favela tried to make her way to the front, she says.
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"She has a massive knot on the top of her head" and also suffered injuries to her nose, ears and hand, Robles-Favela says.
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The film directors who staged the show conjured up a rainforest, a favela and an animated city in a celebration of Brazil's hybrid culture.
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On August 11th a national guardsman died after his vehicle turned into a favela by mistake and was met with a barrage of bullets.
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In the United States, he speaks out on gun control and police brutality; in Brazil, he insisted on visiting a favela to play basketball.
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Penha moved to the community in 1994 with her mother and daughter from Rocinha, Rio's largest and most densely populated favela, to escape chaos.
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Its neighborhood, São Cristovão, lies on the working-class northern fringes of Rio, close to the favela of Mangueira, with its famous samba school.
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She cares about so much, she is willing to go around the world, and go into a favela in Brazil and confront this guy.
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"People think that if you stay in the favela you have to have low prices - our prices are medium," Brandao told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Brazil's president, Michel Temer, sent 950 soldiers into the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro to quell days of gun violence between rival drug gangs.
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The army deployed 950 troops in the sprawling favela, responding to a request from the Rio state government, Defense Minister Raul Jungmann told local television.
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The "Grey's Anatomy" star is down in Rio and Thursday he decided to hit up a favela to try his feet at the beautiful game.
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A man sits at a bar in a favela community as the Olympic games are shown on a TV screen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Barbara Nascimento, a resident of the Vidigal favela near Rio de Janeiro's wealthy Ipanema neighborhood, has seen friends move away from the increasingly trendy neighborhood.
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Shirlei Alves, who lives in the Santa Marta favela of Rio, criticized the government for spending on the Olympics in the face of Brazil's problems.
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Local television showed images of scores of police in dark camouflaged fatigues firing automatic rifles and helicopters flying over the hillside favela overlooking the city.
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"I don't care if this man hits me, I need to help this girl," recalls Robles-Favela, who yelled at the man to stop hitting Torres.
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When Robles-Favela was able to reach Torres, the young woman was covered in blood from a nose injury, shaking and holding her stomach, she says.
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While in Rio covering the grand spectacle of the Olympics, Miranda found time to visit the favela for a quieter performance by Nascimento and her dancers.
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In one episode on Wednesday, soldiers from the federal security force deployed in Rio for the Olympics came under fire in the Vila do João favela.
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One of the communities hit hard by police violence is Maré, a sprawling favela between Rio's international airport and the affluent neighborhoods of Ipanema and Copacabana.
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He said the Favela Front may find its best prospects in Rio, which has been especially hard hit by political and economic instability in recent years.
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Srougi and his team opened their first clinic in 2011 in a São Paulo favela, the irregular slums that spread like an archipelago through Brazil's cities.
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He also suggested that criminals sometimes use the animals to scare kidnapping victims, though there is no evidence that was the case in Favela da Rola.
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The caiman farm stood in the Favela do Rola, in western Rio de Janeiro, one of several sections of the city to be flooded this week.
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Several years after closing the gondola that served the Alemão favela, the state of Rio de Janeiro has kept up hope that it would restart service.
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Maria Esperanza Jimenez, 67, took a bullet to the neck after her Italian tour guide drove into Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro — Brazil's biggest slum.
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TMZ has learned Feigen's $10,800 donation has been tagged to spruce up training facilities for the Reaction Institute in the Rio favela known as City of God.
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It's more orderly than favela architecture, but still has an air of chaos—like the beehive of geometric modules might tumble to the ground at any moment.
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He shows up in a police uniform and once appeared in a helicopter that fired indiscriminately into a favela, an exercise that has become common in Rio.
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When the girls were in grade school, the family escaped neighboring Cidade de Deus (City of God), Rio's most famously violent favela, to find a safer place.
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His grandfather moved to the favela in the 1960s from Brazil's north-east and worked on its electricity grid; now he is working on its informational grid.
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The close proximity of the BRT to favela homes has caused crime, health, and safety issues and concerns, most of which have not been addressed or remedied.
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Switzerland's Linda Indergand made the early pace, building up a 15-second lead over a course with virtually no flat sections and featuring a mock-up favela.
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While the site focuses on good news stories, other favela media projects tackle controversial issues, such as rights abuses, corruption or displacement in untitled neighborhoods, he said.
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It includes a few acres of a favela — the classic Brazilian urban slum — built for a telenovela called "A Regra do Jogo" ("The Rule of the Game").
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First established by landless veterans fresh from putting down an uprising in northeastern Brazil in 1897, Morro da Providencia is considered Rio's first informal settlement or favela.
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A police officer deployed to Rio for the Games was killed when the vehicle he was in came under fire in a favela controlled by drug gangs.
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Someday, I hope to take the tramway in Alemão again all the way to the last stop, to visit friends who live in the Favela das Palmeiras.
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Rather than borders, JR uses the walls of Morro da Providência, Rio de Janeiro's most infamous favela — itself a kind of economic prison from which few escape.
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When someone from Maré or another favela goes to the police, the cases are rarely investigated, much less result in the involvement of federal police and judges.
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A few days before she was murdered, she accused the 41st Military Police, the city's deadliest unit, of terrorizing and harassing the residents of the Acari favela.
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He was brought up by parents he described as lower-middle class in a favela, one of the constellations of poor districts built on the city's hills.
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Luiz Carlos Barbosa was found on the street in the middle of a favela controlled by two criminal gangs; he had been executed for switching his allegiance.
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Mientras los brasileños vean en la favela un estigma equivocado y sigan votando por gobernantes que criminalizan la pobreza, Río no será un estado próspero y pacífico.
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From there, it is on to level three, where Hélio Oiticica has staged a Brazilian favela complete with sand, tropical plants, and squawking macaws ("Tropicália," 1966–1967).
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Launched just before the World Cup amid some criticism, Favela Experience began as a homestay network in Rocinha and has since expanded to include two hostels in Vidigal.
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Such invisibility "makes it easier for the government and society to treat favela residents like they don't exist", says Everton Pereira da Silva, one of the census-takers.
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The Maré has no physical bank, so startup capital usually comes from savings earned from jobs in the formal economy; only 15% of favela entrepreneurs have any debt.
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Christina Robles-Favela, 33, tells PEOPLE she was on her way home from a 12-hour overnight shift at an assisted living facility at about 7:50 a.m.
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Each favela has its own social ecosystem: Some favelas, like Rocinha, are filled with families and service workers who toil at the high end hotels along Ipanema beach.
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People are seen in a bar as the Olympic Games are shown on a TV screen on the outskirts of a favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Residents would have prefered basic sanitation, but this way, tourists too timid for a paid, street-level favela tour can take in the scenery from a comfortable distance.
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"We're an activist community, we've been fighting against the forced destruction of our homes for years," said Maria do Socorro, a 45-year-old beautician in the favela.
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But, believe it or not, life for favela dwellers and Brazilians as a whole is significantly better than it used to be, thanks to the aforementioned economic progress.
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Jesus Rosario Favela Astorga, 37, was arrested in Mexico and is awaiting extradition to the US. He was charged with first-degree murder in connection with Terry's killing.
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Authorities said Terry was fatally shot near Arizona's border with Mexico during a gun battle between Border Patrol agents and a group of five men, including Favela Astorga.
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She vowed that if she had daughters, they would stick with sports because she considers athletics a quicker way out of the favela than doing well in school.
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The commander has also expressed interest in getting "collective warrants" that would be issued for a broad area — for example, an entire favela — rather than a specific address.
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He is best known for making 2002's City of God, a gritty film featuring drug trade and violent crime in Rio's impoverished favela neighborhoods in the 1980s.
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Prosecutors said that Jesus Favela-Astorga, the sole defendant still facing trial, was also arrested by Mexican authorities in 2017 and was awaiting extradition to the United States.
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In a sad and perhaps fitting twist, Alemão's now vacant cable car stations have been repurposed by police as high levels of violence have returned to the favela.
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After a suicide bomber kills their father, the children and their mother, Martina, end up in Camp Patience — a "huge tent favela" for refugees near the Tennessee border.
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Moshammer received this access through a friend who lives in the favela, and she made it apparent that she was not a photojournalist who set out to "prove" something.
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"The interest of real-estate developers in the favela areas is huge," Edison Ferrari, director of investment for the multinational property brokerage firm CBRE, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"The adventure starts with the trip up the hill - take the motorcycles," one foreign patron wrote in a review of the bar, underlying what draws travelers to the favela.
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Learn more about Terere Kids Project and the work the 5x World Champion Fernando Terere is doing here in the Cantagalo Favela by following us on Facebook and Instagram.
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This "follow the money" strategy will be put to the test in Muzema, a favela in Rio's West Zone where two apartment buildings collapsed in April, killing 24 people.
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Broadcaster GloboNews on Friday showed relatively calm scenes of matte green military trucks filing down roads into the favela, including soldiers riding on trucks and motorcycles holding assault rifles.
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In a bid to boost economic growth in the recession-hit nation, Brazil's government has launched a program to make it easier for favela residents to secure formal ownership.
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The 3,600 units include two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments with white tile floors and small balconies, some of which overlook a nearby hillside slum, known as a favela.
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Thousands took to the streets to protest her death, which has become a rallying cry for favela residents and black Brazilians seeking a greater voice in their country's politics.
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We are in Vila Autódromo, a small waterfront favela (low-income community) in Barra da Tijuca, the neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio home to the Olympic Park.
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Rejane Guimarães, 38, who has lived in the Favela do Rola for 25 years, said she had spotted two caimans swimming in the murky waters around 10 a.m. Tuesday.
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His new apartment in a gated complex of beige concrete buildings on clean streets stands in stark contrast to the unplanned red-brick favela perched on the adjacent hillside.
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The reasons for that, and for his connection to Denise, the sociologist, whose previous work focused on transgendered men in a Rio favela, will be explained in due time.
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Rodrigo*, 28, is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and works as an 'airplane' delivering coke and weed sourced from the favela to middle-class customers elsewhere in the city.
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No, this is not poverty tourism or akin to favela tours; you're seeking out an expert precisely to avoid any insensitivity and to try to establish a lasting relationship.
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One image depicts a Kanye West-designed Yeezy shoe — a very popular item in the favela, even if many are fake — while another shows people playing on their iPhones.
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Following years of resistance, on the eve of the Olympics they secured an agreement to receive new public housing and urban infrastructure on the original site of the favela.
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In her most recent work, Land of Black Milk, she traveled to a favela in Rio de Janeiro, where access is still restricted by the gang that occupies the streets.
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Prosecutors say the arrangement has allowed the São Paulo group to take control of Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, thought to be the city's most profitable drug market.
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The girls practice ballet on a basketball court because in their favela, considered one of the most dangerous in the city, there is no other place for them to go.
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On Thursday, Rio police said they arrested two people and confiscated firearms after a shootout in Cantagalo, a favela, or slum, that overlooks the popular, upscale beach neighborhood of Ipanema.
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Although Parks took numerous photographs of other family members and of the Catacumba Favela itself, it is his lovingly framed gelatin silver prints of the boy, Flávio that stand out.
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So when de Sousa came across Casa Angela, a natural birth clinic on the outskirts of a favela in Sao Paulo, she knew it was the right place for her.
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Hepatitis A is endemic among favela residents, health experts say, and children are frequently sickened by the pathogens that seep from sewage-laden culverts into jury-rigged drinking water pipes.
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Two tourists have been shot so far this year in the city, including a Spanish woman who was killed by a policeman last month while she was touring a favela.
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The Rio police confirmed in a written statement that the tourist, María Esperanza Ruiz Jiménez, 67, died after being shot by a police officer in the Rocinha favela, or slum.
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It's not that they don't want to learn, they have just been raised in the bosom of the favela subculture where studying has never been directly correlated with making money.
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He took readers into the lives of a Brazilian boy, Flavio da Silva, and his family, who lived in the ramshackle Catacumba favela in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro.
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Either way, favela residents are tired of getting caught in the crossfire between heavily armed policemen, militia groups and drug gangs — many of them claiming to defend the community itself.
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In a São Paulo favela, she investigates not violence and death but "the delicate things that made life possible," challenging herself to maintain an "eye of astonishment" while chronicling inequality.
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Ahora, en el poder, no ha moderado sus declaraciones incendiarias: en junio dijo que su gobierno podría arrojar misiles contra la favela Ciudad de Dios para asesinar a los narcotraficantes.
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"These operations don't result in anything, just violence," said Valdinei Martins, 44, a resident of the neighboring Acari favela whose brother João was killed by a stray bullet in 2014.
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Some police rested in front of a mural painted at the entrance to the favela in happier times, which listed the number of days the neighborhood had gone without armed conflict.
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Torres, who works in food service at a retail store, doesn't know the man, didn't say anything to him and still has no idea why he attacked her, Robles-Favela says.
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In 2017, #makethefuture will continue on making a positive change in Brazil, where Insolar are harnessing the power of the plentiful sun to bring sustainable lighting to community areas of favela.
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In Rio de Janeiro, in particular, favela residents were pushed out of their homes to make way for infrastructure for last year's Games, while new transport networks mainly helped wealthier areas.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was in Morro da Mineira favela, in Rio de Janeiro, that British engineer Laurence Kemball-Cook first saw how his floor tiles could make a difference.
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And occasionally, they get home to Rio, where there mother now lives in a house in a middle-class neighborhood, not far from the favela where they first swung their rackets.
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A number of protestors wore shirts supporting Vila Autodromo, a favela that, for many critics, is now Exhibit A of the pre-Olympic displacement that changed the urban landscape in Rio.
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In 2002, co-directors Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund treated American moviegoers to the harsh realities of youth in a Rio de Janeiro favela with the hyper-stylish City of God.
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One of the best known is media collective Papo Reto (Straight Talk), which was set up in the Complexo do Alemao favela to document abuses by security forces and counter stereotypes.
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Irenaldo Honorio da Silva, 47, who leads the residents' committee in Pica-Pau, a favela with 7,000 residents, said local officials had been promising to address the sanitation crisis for decades.
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Silva, who is from Brazil's largest favela and trained at a judo dojo founded by the former Olympic bronze medalist Flavio Canto, was in top form for much of the day.
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The storm knocked down the walls of a caiman farm in a neighborhood, or favela, that is controlled, like others in Rio de Janeiro, by a heavily armed criminal paramilitary group.
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Ricardo Freitas, a local biologist who has been studying crocodilians in Rio de Janeiro State for 17 years, was not surprised by the existence of a caiman farm inside a favela.
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We rode along with André Felix, a 25-year-old Rocinha native, who gives tours of the favela when he's not waiting tables at a fine-dining restaurant near the Olympic Village.
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These blogs read like assemblages of information and content scavenged from other parts of the internet, like a content favela mushrooming up around the gleaming cities where the high-paid influencers live.
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Mangueira's metal roof was retractable, and when it opened, like cracking a lid to let the steam out, it revealed Mangueira's backdrop, a hillside favela that envelops the school on three sides.
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A hair stylist and samba dancer from the favela Morro São João, she says the song is a call for sexual liberation in a world where "women are still seen as submissive".
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Meanwhile, the bus driver, who had gotten off the bus earlier to call authorities, ran back on, grabbed the man and pulled him outside, according to Robles-Favela and the Chicago police.
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The Olympic security chief was reportedly attacked as he left the opening ceremony and a National Force officer was shot dead after straying into the notorious Vila do Joao favela by mistake.
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On the day-to-day realities of living and training in a favela When I lived in Sergipe, I only saw guns and drugs on TV. Upon arriving in Rio, everything changed.
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The community was the second favela in Rio to receive police units under the city's so-called "pacification" program, which combined aggressive enforcement targeting gangs with public investment in low-income areas.
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The rain, the heaviest in 22 years, flooded streets, trapped residents in cars and caused landslides and building collapses in neighborhoods rich and poor, with the highest death toll in favela communities.
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"To see her win really lifted our spirits," said Fabio Costa dos Santos, 47, an unemployed carpenter who, like Silva, hails from City of God, a favela in the city's western suburbs.
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The Knicks' Carmelo Anthony ventured into a favela to play pick-up basketball with youngsters and the Pacers' Paul George met and had his photograph taken with the Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo.
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Knowing no one and speaking no Portuguese, he spent some time living on the streets before finding shelter among a small community of Congolese in a favela, or slum, in northern Rio.
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La periodista brasileña Carol Pires visita una favela en Río de Janeiro que sirve para ejemplificar el fracaso de las políticas de Estado que intentan combatir la violencia urbana con más violencia.
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La favela de Maré es un ejemplo paradigmático de las malas gestiones estatales en las favelas y del fracaso de la política de seguridad pública en las favelas de todo el país.
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She planned to get her kids ready for school then head to work at the grocery stall in Maré, the favela where the mother of three lived and worked alongside 130,000 others.
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Marielle era un lastre para las aspiraciones del nuevo mandatario brasileño: afrodescendiente nacida en un favela, feminista y anticapitalista, tenía una agenda que consistía en pelear por los derechos de los oprimidos.
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I'm an airplane, which means you see me or give me a call, hand me the money, then I'll go get the stuff from my morro ["hill," synonymous with "favela" in Rio].
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Police violence during favela operations and evictions linked to such events is one of the children's rights violations highlighted by the Children Win campaign, led by Swiss humanitarian organization Terre des Hommes.
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Brandao said celebrities seeking the "favela experience" recently included the U.S. singer Queen Latifah and film director Spike Lee, as waiters in T-shirts marked "Vidigal" served drinks and customers posed for selfies.
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To take photos in the favela, or even be allowed entry, you need to be there with somebody who's a native, and this person needs to introduce you to somebody from the gangs.
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Pereira is a Military Police Major within the state government who, according to the G1 report, also acted as the commander of the illegal, civilian-run militia that ruled the city's Muzema favela.
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ON THE sweltering afternoon of March 1.53th some 21.5,22011 people crammed the narrow streets of Maré, a favela in the north of Rio de Janeiro, to protest against the murder of a friend.
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Most still support the P.T., but in Rio's huge Rocinha favela, where seventy thousand people live on the slopes above Leblon Beach, it is not difficult to find people who voted for Bolsonaro.
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Outcry over the murder of Franco has galvanized the Favela Front's efforts to push for change, tapping widespread disillusionment with traditional politicians to win more visibility for the concerns of poor black Brazilians.
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Even before fundraising, the Favela Front has run into hurdles trying to register formally as a party, a process that requires thousands of signatures and will not be completed before the October election.
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Years of Hollertronix forums and M.I.A mixtapes and favela-scavenging trips finally paid off—Guns Don't Kill People... transformed him from a scrappy blog favorite into a pop star in his own right.
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Even before the current financial crisis, Rio de Janeiro has long been troubled by massive social problems — the inequality famously visible in the contrast between shabby favela housing and gleaming beachside apartment blocks.
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In this 1961 photo essay, he took readers inside the lives of a Brazilian boy, Flavio da Silva, and his family, who lived in a favela in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro.
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It arranged for Flavio, who suffered from asthma and malnutrition, to be treated at a Denver hospital, moved the da Silva family to a new home and administered funds to support the favela.
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The police pacified this favela in 2012 as part of the fight against the criminal organization Comando Vermelho (CV), and they now occupy it, but the CV still exists—there's just a different dynamic.
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The Ramos River, a tiny, barely moving body of water positioned between the two innder sides of a split road, runs from the hilltop favela Complexo do Alemão, past Olaria, and into Guanabara Bay.
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As YOU WALK down Rua Teixeira Ribeiro, a commercial avenue in the Complexo da Maré, Rio de Janeiro's biggest favela, you barely notice the open-air drug markets guarded by teens with AK-47s.
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In 2014, inspired by the changing conditions in their hometown, Santiago and several other residents of Complexo de Alemão, a favela in Rio's north zone, formed a local media collective called Coletivo Papo Reto.
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Cariocas were gracious, from Copacabana baristas to an impoverished 64-year-old, Marie Auxiliadora, who invited me into her home in Favela do Mandela to listen to her upset with these too-expensive Games.
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It was a Thursday in April 2015 and the Jamaican ran the red track that is the pride of Mangueira, where young athletes from the favela, or slum, of 15,000 people train and dream.
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The kids descend from the Cantagalo favela two times a day to escape from the harsh realities of the socio-economic vice grip that marginalizes them from most other recreational activities throughout the city.
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One of the most eloquent voices against that intervention had been Marielle Franco, a 38-year-old black bisexual woman who came from the Maré favela and was a member of Rio's City Council.
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In 2014, inspired by the changing conditions in their hometown, Santiago and several other residents of Complexo de Alemão, a favela in Rio's north zone, formed a local media collective called Coletivo Papo Reto.
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A gun battle erupted between traffickers and police after they deployed some 450 officers to the Alemao favela in the north of the city to carry out dozens of arrests warrants, a spokesman said.
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Because the developers didn't want a favela anywhere near the apartments they'd need to sell after the Games, the city negotiated with individual occupants and demolished their houses as soon as they agreed to leave.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mauricio Hora's family has lived in Rio de Janeiro's oldest favela for generations but despite his deep roots, the artist-activist has no interest in formally owning his home.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Perched on a hill beside the concrete skyscrapers of Rio's central business district stands the city's oldest favela whose rising - and now declining - fortunes mirror those of Brazil itself.
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Some 11.4 million Brazilians live in favelas, according to government data, although a study by the United Nations estimated a favela population five times that size, encompassing more than a third of the country's population.
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The invaluable folks over at RioOnWatch identify three recurring categories: First are the very visible, expensive architectural projects which look nice but are seen as pandering to tourists rather than serving favela residents' true needs.
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Terere has been teaching free classes in the favela ever since 2000, when he was still a blue belt at Alliance, but Terere Kids Project itself is a relatively new entity that started in 2013.
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A graphic video and photo posted online last week showed a 16-year-old girl, stripped, bloodied, and unconscious after being apparently raped by more than 30 men in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.
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A graphic video and photo posted online last week showed a 16-year-old girl, stripped, bloodied, and unconscious after being apparently raped by more than 133 men in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.
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As someone who lived in both "Rio proper" and Niteroi, across the bay, Rudy's seen a side to life that doesn't quite fit the City of God favela imagery so often associated with Brazil's capital.
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Or, you might catch the military or police killing black youth in a favela, or storming one of the dozens of secondary schools currently occupied by student activists who want improvements to Brazil's underfunded educational system.
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"This is not, even for a second, a kind of romantic look at the favela as a kind of a pre-civilized, paradisic state of living," said Aravena in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In October 2015, Regina Múrmura, 70, and her husband, Francisco, 69, followed directions on their Waze navigation app into the Caramujo favela, what news reports called a "violent" Brazilian neighborhood 15 miles outside Rio de Janeiro.
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A STEEP hill and a concrete wall divide the worlds of Gabriela Moura, a student from Paraisópolis, a favela in the city of São Paulo, and Roberto Inglese, a lawyer from the prosperous neighbourhood of Morumbi.
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The team said it had meetings with government and local officials, civil society groups, indigenous and LGBT communities, favela dwellers and diplomats with the aim of drawing up a report to be presented in the future.
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Despite Teixeira's efforts, the residents in the favela about 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Rio's city center are still waiting for the streets to be fully paved, sidewalks to be built and manholes to be constructed.
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In emailed comments to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Rio's city hall said the favela was "urbanized" four years ago but did not immediately respond to requests for details about which services were provided to the area.
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" To make matters worse, Emma doesn't especially like São Paulo, which she describes as "always in the throes of something," a place where everything "was intimately juxtaposed — favela and high-rise, crack dealer and opera house.
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At the end of class, he returned the gi to Fabricio, who is more commonly known by the kids as Birrinho, and followed his new friends out of the gym and back up to the favela.
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How predator was caught by clue in photo he posted online On Monday morning, police launched a new raid into a favela in western Rio where the incident occurred to carry out a series of arrest warrants.
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This unusual design had come from a simple starting point: government subsidies covered construction of a 30 to 40 square meter house while his firm's research showed favela families needed 70 to 80 square meters of space.
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"We considered that an operation was successful if it had dead criminals," Major Roberto Valente, who commands a Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) — a military police station in a favela — told Human Rights Watch in December last year.
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This week, world's largest intact Ancient mosaic, Gordon Parks's 1961 images of a favela dweller, critic Inga Saffron roasts Stu Bykofsky, huge cache of 163s noise and post-punk cassettes go online, spaceflight as colonialism, and more.
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As the casualties mount in the favela where Richard lives with his family, the Games seem — to them and thousands of others in some of Rio's poorest areas — like they are taking place in some distant city.
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Sports of The Times RIO DE JANEIRO — A thousand metaphysical miles from the well-heeled Olympic zone, a couple of activists and I entered the Favela do Mandela, a ramshackle collection of brick-and-tar-paper buildings.
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Mechanics and other staff travel to and from the track by minibus or rental cars, with the road passing alongside a slum favela with a number of traffic lights leaving vehicles vulnerable when they slow or stop.
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The city's press office and environment department said Wednesday that although their officials had declined to enter the favela, they were talking with residents to assess the possibility of a joint rescue operation with the military police.
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Eliana Sousa, who heads Redes da Maré, a community organization in the Maré favela, one of the largest in Rio de Janeiro, said she fears that empowering the police to use greater violence will make matters worse.
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While loudspeakers carried Mr Bolsonaro's remarks another sound system blasted out a Bolsonaro themed favela funk track by a local artist that makes fun of leftist politicians, including the congresswoman Mr Bolsonaro said was too ugly to rape.
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Dirand started making buildings around the age of 7; he would create them from detritus, "like a favela," and engineer them so that, with the pull of a string, the entire structure would collapse in a glorious heap.
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"The violence will increase because [the traffickers] want to use this global event to exert pressure on the police to retreat," said Liliane Sabio, a teacher who works in a library in a favela in Rio's Santa Teresa neighborhood.
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And 38-year-old Robson Borges, who worked as a mapper supervisor in the Muquiço favela, said he participated in the project in the hopes it would generate local income, boost the economy and give visibility to the area.
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Put another way: A visitor can arrive in Rio today, see the favela slums and smell the sewage in the streets and ocean, and be forgiven for believing, at least at first, that progress has never touched Brazil's shores.
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The French director Marcel Camus transplants the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to a favela in Rio de Janeiro as a young couple (Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn) falls rapturously in love at the height of Carnival madness.
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The incandescent Revueltas suite, derived from one of his film scores, is a touchstone of the Mexican repertoire; pairing it with Mr. Glass's tribute to Rocinha, a Rio de Janeiro favela, gives the program a vaguely Latin American theme.
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Every year he would take an extensive trip through Europe giving seminars, and then, when he came back to the favela, he would buy boxes of cookies and juice for the kids and make more improvements to the academy.
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Dodging buses and winding through the narrow curves of Rocinha on a recent afternoon, one mototáxi driver said that he's noticed more gringos as of late hopping on the back of the mopeds that transport residents up Brazil's largest favela.
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Like most people from the favela, they were born with the odds stacked against them, but instead of using poverty as an excuse to be mediocre they focused their energy on jiu jitsu, the sport that they have come to love.
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Nor could he have known that it would completely remake the life of his principal subject: Flávio da Silva, a rachitic 12-year-old boy who lived a life of grinding poverty in a favela named Catacomb — Catacumba in Portuguese.
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There isn't a lot of data on how many favela-based news services are operating in Rio or nationwide, said Vicky Mayer, a professor at Tulane University who studies independent media, as volunteer-run projects frequently shut down or shift focus.
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When Mr. Ghesquière noted that the museum was across the road from a favela, and the people who lived in the slum would be able to see the show from a stairway and their balconies, it was hard not to grimace.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Last month, a torrent of water knocked down a wall in Rita de Cassia Goncalves da Silva's house in the Horto favela behind Rio de Janeiro's botanical garden, at the foot of the Tijuca rainforest.
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CreditCreditDado Galdieri for The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — One of the world's most improbable sports centers is a hulking, light-blue building on a mud-caked alley in Chacrinha, a favela on the western outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
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Gold for Silva marks a fairytale rise to the Olympic podium from a childhood in Rio's notorious "City of God" favela, and provides redemption for a disappointing London 2012 when she was disqualified in the early rounds for a rule violation.
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The April 2015 shooting of ten-year-old Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira set off protests in Brazil, after the boy's mother said she watched a cop shoot her son at the doorstep of their home, in Rio's Complexo do Alemão favela.
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Bira Carvalho, a 45 year-old photographer from the Maré favela, recently reported a burglary at his home which he claims was conducted by the infamous BOPE, a special unit of the military police trained to perform high-risk operations.
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Mientras camino por las callejuelas de Maré, veo el rostro de la favela que enorgullece a su gente: grupos de niños se reúnen frente a las tiendas a jugar y se alcanza a escuchar la música que sale de los bares.
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Even though these neighborhoods face extreme poverty and often lack basic city services, over the last few years the favelas have almost been fetishized in pop culture—there's a big installation in the Providência favela by the famous street artist JR, for example.
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Although he installed his first tiles illegally (he needed to convince unconvinced investors to invest), Pavegen tiles have been bought and installed by companies, organizations, and government across 30 countries: from Heathrow Airport, to outside the White House, to a favela in Brazil.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - A mock favela built on Copacabana beach to protest the lack of an Olympic legacy for Rio de Janeiro's poor was broken up by police on Saturday, who said it was blocking access to the beach.
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When Francisco Costa stepped into Casa Geração Vidigal, the fashion school for young designers in the favela sprawling above Ipanema beach, he was moved: "The space is small, the rooms are falling apart, but there's so much love and creativity," he says.
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At one, in the troubled City of God favela, software now streamlines the triage process, a cheery ombudsman takes complaints and a new app lets supervisors track how long doctors spend with each patient — or whether they take inordinately long lunch breaks.
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When, over the course of a few days, two stray bullets landed in the equestrian media tent — organizers said one had come from a nearby favela, aimed at a government surveillance blimp — the authorities responded by flooding the area with heavily armed soldiers.
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Born and raised in the Maré favela, a sprawling low-income district in northern Rio de Janeiro, Ms. Franco became a critic of police brutality and government neglect of poor areas of her city as she pursued a master's degree in public policy.
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Just three weeks ago, she and her friends in the city-like cinderblock complex of Penha, a poor mountainside favela of 50,2100 located in the north of Rio de Janeiro, saw a boy shot dead in a confrontation with police below their quad.
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Bar Da Laje is a vivid example of what is becoming known as 'favela chic', a phenomenon that has seen some parts of the enormous informal settlements once synonymous with poverty and violence become fashionable, home to edgy art galleries and up-market cafes.
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Captive explores those larger forces in "The Cola Kidnap," about the 1991 abduction of Coca-Cola executive Corinne Coffin in Rio de Janeiro by a local crime lord, Ronaldo Monteiro — who is respected as something of a Robin Hood figure among his fellow favela-dwellers.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads RIO DE JANEIRO — Stacks of houses that showcase raw, exposed brick frame the rooftop view where I meet screenwriter Fabiana Escobar, or Bibi Danger, as she is known in Rio de Janeiro's Rocinha, the largest favela in Brazil.
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In a favela with a history of violence between police and drug gangs, or armed battles between traffickers themselves, capoeira is an outlet that gives kids a sense of community - its practice a collective exercise blending characteristics of drum circles, sparring and tag-team gymnastics.
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One by one, they stood up and told their stories: a PE instructor from Brazil who taught karate in the local favela to get kids off the street, an aspiring gymnast, a man who had run seven marathons on seven continents in seven consecutive days.
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I suspect many reporters will spend their entire Olympic experience within this bubble, hardly interacting with Cariocas at all, maybe out of fear—more than one journalist has expressed shock that I would even go to a favela—but mostly due to professional obligations.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Crowds can get rowdy at big badminton tournaments but nothing could prepare Brazil's samba-dancing favela dweller Ygor Coelho de Oliveira for the ear-splitting support during his group match defeat to Ireland's Scott Evans at the Olympics on Saturday.
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Some of these children were wearing flip-flops, and all of them came from a place largely written off by the middle and upper classes of Brazil, a country where growing up in a favela is a black mark as permanent as a tattoo.
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Daniela Santos, una trabajadora del hogar de 32 años que vive en la favela Vila Paciência, al oeste de Río de Janeiro, está haciendo su mejor esfuerzo para refugiarse en la casa de una habitación que comparte con sus tres hijas y su nieta.
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Interspersed throughout the book is a running tally of deaths — pages full of digits, like a scene from "The Matrix" — as well as lyrical commentary by Viviane Salles, a poet from City of God, a favela made famous by the movie of the same name.
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But last week, when the 13-year-old who loved playing basketball and dreamed of turning professional was playing in the same schoolyard in the Fazenda Botafogo favela, shortly after the photos were taken, a gun battle between the police and drug gang members erupted.
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Pavegen has also worked with Shell to install two football pitches – one in a Favela in Morro da Miniera, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and one in Lagos, Nigeria – with kinetic tiles beneath the pitch which, combined with solar power, powered the pitch floodlights at night.
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There are a few other local artists of color, including Maxwell Alexander, who comes from the Roçinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, and who has presented a wall painting on tarp that echoes the cheap swimming pools used by people from the favelas.
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Rio de Janeiro is the most violent host city to date—a statistic tragically illustrated on August 11th when a national guardsman died in hospital after being shot by drug traffickers the previous night when his vehicle took a wrong turn and entered a lawless favela (shantytown).
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He is at his best in a quieter voice, sorting out why the police cannot simply swoop into a favela and arrest Mr. Big, and how street lookouts work and, especially, how a smart young Brazilian with a sick baby could transform himself into a crime lord.
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Moicano is constantly looking for anyone willing to throw on a kimono and train with him, whether it's a fellow teammate at the main FT academy where he used to have his own key or friend from one of the other social projects in the favela.
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Last October a 70-year-old Brazilian woman, Regina Múrmura, was shot and killed while driving with her husband after the app led the elderly couple into a gang-controlled favela in Rio de Janeiro, due to replicated street names in different parts of the city.
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At 63:15, Julio Nogueira left his house, he stopped briefly to stuff a few stray beer cans lying in the street into a small white trash bag, that he's taking to deposit into the large bins at the base of the favela, and then continued on his way.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 17 (Reuters) - Some 20 years after Michael Jackson recorded his famed "They Don't Care About Us" music video in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, his brother Tito Jackson retraced his steps in the Brazilian city to film a cameo appearance for a charity song.
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"This will not miraculously change the lives of us poor but I do think it will help change the vision that many people have, not just for this favela but for all of them: for all the hard-working and creative people who live in these communities," she said.
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LOUDPVCK tour dates:February 23 - Level - Lubbock TXMarch 3 - Liquid - Madison WIMarch 4 - Exchange - Los Angeles, CAApril 8 - Phoenix Lights - Phoenix, ArizonaApril 10 - Billygans - Cabo San LucasApril 15 - Favela Nightclub - Hartford CT Botnek tour dates:February 25 - Bass Continuum - Atlanta, GAMarch 17 - Skyway Theatre - Minneapolis, MNMarch 24 - Bassmnt - San Diego, CA
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Being black, maintaining strong ties to the favela where she was raised and being open about being in a same-sex relationship made Ms. Franco unique in Brazilian politics — and a role model for people who do not see themselves represented in a system dominated by white men.
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In addition to Torres, the contestants of the fifth season of Mira Quien Baila are Venezuelan actor Alejandro Nones, television host Ana Patricia Gámez, Dominican influencer ChikyBombom, Cuban-American gymnast Danell Leyva, Peruvian chef Franco Noriega, actor Ektor Rivera Mexican artist Marlene Favela and singers Pablo Montero and Victoria 'La Mala.'
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In the many hours at the hospital and later at the police station, the two women bonded to the point that Robles-Favela offered to host a baby shower for Torres, who is due at the end of October, and even said she could move in with her and her husband.
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French tourist Sabrina Noblanc took selfies with a friend on the deck of the Favelinha hostel in the Pereira da Silva slum, or "favela," located in central Rio on a steep hill, where the city's traffic din fades away to the squawks of jungle birds and squeals of kite-flying kids.
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Solo en la favela de Maré, al norte de Río de Janeiro, en ocho de las veintiuna operaciones policiacas que se han realizado en el primer semestre de 2019, la policía de Río ha utilizado helicópteros —apodados caveirão volador, la gran calavera voladora— para disparar indiscriminadamente en contra de la población.
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Watching the opening ceremony from, say, a bar in the upscale Leblon or one of the many hospitality houses around the city provides a very different perspective than where I watched the opening ceremony: a small watch party in a favela in Santa Teresa, a mixed neighborhood of favelas and middle income homes.
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"The arrest of Favela Astorga resulted from the unwavering commitment of the United States and our law enforcement partners in Mexico to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of Agent Brian Terry, who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving his country," Acting U.S. Attorney Alana Robinson said in a statement.
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In fact, it has just opened two other shows that would fit in easily downtown at the New Museum: "Justin Favela: Recuérdame," an enormous commissioned mural about Mexico in one of Mr. Favela's favorite materials, piñata paper, and "Yuken Teruya: Cutting Trees," featuring tree dioramas made from cut and folded paper bags.
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She's now living the fighter's life and pursuing her dream to become a pro mixed martial artist, but has found a way to continue her interest in creating social change by helping organize The Tererê Kids Project, a nonprofit for the children living in poverty in the favela of Morro do Contagalo.
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WhatsApp audio messages and sending pictures of written notes is sometimes the only way you can force feed education down the throats of several generations of favela-born athletes that tend to use pens, pencils, and notebooks for the same things they use rock and balls; throwing them at each other's heads.
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In a lengthy profile published for The Cut's fall issue, Beecroft reveals some very interesting facts about herself: that her diet consists mostly of powders; that she refers to her assumedly very clean and safe home in Hollywood Hills as a "favela"; and that she harbors some very, very messed-up thoughts about race.
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But don't let it sidetrack you from Pape's more pugnacious work with the camera, from her Super 8 footage shot in a favela on the sea to her documentary "A Mão do Povo" ("The Hand of the People"), from 1975, which contrasts indigenous Brazilian art and handicraft with consumerist junk in Brazil's big cities.
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In the best new artist category, ten newcomers are nominated for the coveted accolade; Brazilian actress-singer Sophia Abrahão and actor-singer Ian Ramil, Chilean artists Alex Anwandter and Mon Laferte, Mexican-American indie band The Chamanas, Colombian artists Esteman, Manuel Medrano and pop band Morat, Mexican singer Joss Favela and Puerto Rican singer Ile.
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Given that JR's Women Are Heroes project focused on women living in the Moro de Providencia favela of Rio de Janeiro — and that the artist's own cultural community center, Casa Amarela, continues to do work there — choosing an image from that series made a great deal of sense, a spokesperson for the artist told Hyperallergic.
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The music video for "Vai Malandra," shot in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Vidigal, has come under fire from Brazilian commentators for many reasons (her cellulite being the most prominent, but this piece will give no serious critical weight to that bit of tabloid fodder) but among them is Anitta wearing her hair in braids.
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The articles gathered here, all previously published in Brazilian newspapers or magazines, explore the lives of everyday people: a father burying his premature son in a cemetery of shallow paupers' graves, gold prospectors trying their luck in the jungle, women saving up for their sons' coffins in a favela, knowing the boys won't make it much past 20.
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The average gamer might recognize favelas from their prominent role in the 227 action game, Max Payne 3, or the Academy Award–nominated film City of God, but for those unfamiliar with the term, a favela is a Brazilian slum that's similar to an American housing project, but with a degree of violence and poverty that is nearly unheard of in the States.
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Somewhat symbolically, the first gold medal winner for Brazil, Rafaela Silva, was also this incredibly gifted competitor in judo and she grew up very poor — she's Afro-Brazilian, and she grew up very poor in Cidade de Deus, the City of God, the huge favela where Fernando Meirelles, the director of the opening ceremony, made his film of the same name.
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But this does mean that some of the more imposing works, like Cassils's "Fast Twitch// Slow Twitch" (2011), an incredible video projection capturing the artist's extreme bodybuilding process, or Marc Ohrem-Leclef's Olympic Favela (2016), a poignant documentary and photo series about the fisher families who were callously displaced by the preparations for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, feel a bit watered down.
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It wasn't until someone showed him an email with the money transfer to pay for his visa that he really began to believe he would actually get to travel to the U.S. For someone from the favela, acquiring a visa is no easy task, the cost of the application fee is well above your average monthly salary and then there is an extensive amount of complicated paper work that has to be filed.
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But also if you don't bring the people we need to make the solution we first mentioned the farmer here we have in Davos our cook from a favela , the most horrible place I've been in the world, its in Rio de Janeiro 20 minutes from my home and he lives right in the street where the conflicts of the gangs war they fight but he goes everywhere looking because he's searching for opportunities and becoming a trainer.
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Mr. Bowen, a well-connected scout who is employed by Fightball to find the players, rattled off their gritty pedigrees: Leandro De Lima was found on the favela courts of Rio de Janeiro; Dusan Bulut, who flew in from Serbia, is ranked the No. 1 three-on-three player in the world; Billy Baptist was cut from the Chicago Bulls summer camp after a short stint; Eric Williams dominates courts in a gang-ridden area of Los Angeles.
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No obstante, el viaje de Vinícius representa algo muy distinto de la típica historia de alguien que pasa de la favela a la riqueza: es muestra del juego de alto riesgo del Real Madrid para mantener su excelencia a futuro, de la facilidad con la que los grandes clubes pueden aumentar el valor (y las expectativas) de un jugador no probado y de los esfuerzos de una familia por conservar aunque sea un mínimo grado de normalidad en medio de esa tormenta.
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No obstante, el viaje de Vinícius representa algo muy distinto de la típica historia de alguien que pasa de la favela a la riqueza: es muestra del juego de alto riesgo del Real Madrid para mantener su excelencia a futuro, de la facilidad con la que los grandes clubes pueden aumentar el valor (y las expectativas) de un jugador no probado y de los esfuerzos de una familia por conservar aunque sea un mínimo grado de normalidad en medio de esa tormenta.
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They are suspected of killing all kinds of people who happened to cross their path: the administrative director of a newspaper, a van driver who refused to pay a toll, two men who deliver gas cylinders, many random witnesses of their crimes, a man who complained that militiamen were recklessly shooting in the air, several homosexuals, the president of a samba school, a member of their own group who did a live transmission of a favela invasion, teenagers caught smoking marijuana, and even a bird thief.
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Tracklist:Iñaki x Pobvio - Gasolina (Metal Edit)Ozuna - Única (DJ Alan Quiñonez)DURA DJ - Terre Terre Terremoto Pa Tu ColaKonshens - Turn Around [BloodXidE™ X Skunkkie Sam Remix 2018]Kid Cala - Yo se que tuYnfynyt Scroll - SalvajeLa Diabla - LemonKorn x J Alvarez - Fallin Hataz (Deltraton Bootleg)MC Kitinho e MC 7 Belo - Promoçao na Favela (DJ R7 Lançamento 2018)Hector El Bambino - Noche De Travesura (BMORE Remix)Sand Pact - Breast RefusalDJ Roberto - Eu Sinto Falta Da MamadaDJ Taj & DJ Diamond Kuts - Rake It Up (Jersey Club Mix)Ariana Grande ft Nicky Minaj - Side 2 Side (2DLQTZ Cumbia Remix)Miway - Mover y RebotarJoeTheProducer - Cold CypherLil Crack x Don Omar, Wisin & Yandel - No Sé De Ella (No Boy Edit)donk bubbleMORO - ELYNCIPEAnitta x Dinamarca - Paradinha // Niños (miuccia)Aggromance - Rotas Cadenas
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