The press's hyper-focus on the sensational aspects of favelas is slowly changing, but someone not very familiar with Brazil is likely to associate favelas with violence and drugs.
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" He also pointed out: "People who do not live with the reality of favelas need to understand that [in favelas] the only presence of the state is through the police.
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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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It needs better policing and community work in the favelas.
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And killings by police in Rio's favelas have steadily increased.
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Not in the desperate alleys of Manila's equivalent of favelas.
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People live in favelas and deal with war like conditions.
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Being involved in the favelas and Samba was a revelation.
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Favelas are rambling, ramshackle, unplanned housing developments for Rio's working poor.
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Shoot-outs in favelas, or shantytowns, have killed dozens of people.
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Pedrinho's explanation for Bolsonaro's appeal in the favelas was bluntly cynical.
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Favelas, butts, and violence"—writes about what she calls "everyday insurrections.
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Other favelas have major drugs trafficking crime and are ruled by gangs.
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Expanding the program and getting more young people from Rio's favelas involved.
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But not just that, she also represented all the favelas in Brazil.
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Some of your paintings were inspired by Brazilian kids in the favelas.
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In 244 the state started sending "pacifying police units" (UPPs) to 216 favelas.
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Some people are even choosing to stay in Brazil's poorest areas — the favelas.
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"Roughly 20% of Brazil's population lives in these so-called favelas," Muggah said.
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Franco, 38, had campaigned against police officers' use of force in the favelas.
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And the city's urban violence is not just confined to its notorious favelas.
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Mas em muitas favelas, o discurso incentivou que as pessoas voltasse às ruas.
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Outside Rio's favelas, she said, people avoid subjects like police killings and poverty.
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Local residents of the favelas say they've heard shootouts every single day of 2017.
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Among the many causes was a decline in a "pacification" policy for the favelas.
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The census was organised by two NGOs, Redes da Maré and Observatório de Favelas.
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All these problems were as familiar in imperial Rome as in Brazil's favelas today.
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Favelas account for 3.7% of the city's area and house 22% of its people.
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Many live in sprawling urban slums or favelas, which first developed as squatter communities.
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In a TED talk, he vowed to have all favelas "completely urbanized" by 2020.
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The hutongs and favelas bulldozed for the sake of the arena will never be
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What has been remarkable for me is how much the favelas have opened up.
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Yet Meirelles, who brought favelas into the international spotlight, is directing the opening ceremony.
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Según el último censo, 1,3 millones de personas viven en las favelas de Río.
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Hace unas semanas visité la Maré, una de las favelas más desfavorecidas de Río.
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Why are the surrounding working class neighborhoods charged for the illegal electricity usage by favelas?
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The director says the reality portrayed in Escape from Rocinha translates to favelas across Brazil.
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IC: When the PCC moves into favelas and neighborhoods, how does it build its networks?
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Ms Cabral now thinks the UPPs should leave the favelas, letting the drug traffickers return.
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Prosperous Rio willfully averts its gaze from its grim, crowded favelas and never ventures inside.
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As a global boost for the sound of Brazil's favelas, this is an unqualified win.
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She chooses Clara (Isabél Zuaa), a black care worker from one of the city's favelas.
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Reaching the favelas at the heights of Complexo do Alemão is nothing less than breathtaking.
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I'm younger and"—shrug, slight hand movement—"good-looking, and I came from the favelas.
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Drug gangs in the favelas and militia groups led by rogue ex-police regained ground.
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Diante do coronavírus, o presidente precisa mudar de postura e proteger os moradores das favelas.
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A epidemia só tem evidenciado a tragédia e o abandono vivido pelas favelas há décadas.
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I had been told that favelas were the slums of Rio, places I shouldn't go.
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Schemes are underway to improve favelas in Rio de Janeiro and slums in Indonesia, for example.
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My grandmother was chatting with the driver, asking him which of Rio's favelas we were passing.
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The favelas will remain mired in drug-related violence because of the demand for illegal drugs.
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People crowded into slums, shantytowns and favelas from where they were hard put to reach jobs.
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Even as dozens of armed police storm through the favelas of São Paulo, children keep playing.
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The vast majority of cariocas live neither along beachfront avenues nor the alleyways of ramshackle favelas.
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The plan involved upgrading favelas with sewer systems, reliable water, paved roads and improved street lighting.
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Some of the soldiers dispatched to the city have been stationed at the entrances to favelas.
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He took to frequenting Rio's favelas, the direly impoverished hillside shantytowns that overlook the prosperous city.
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Rio state, where around a fifth of the population lives in favelas, now has 305 cases.
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Rio state, where around a fifth of the population lives in favelas, now has 305 cases.
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Twenty-five percent of the residents of Rio de Janeiro live in informal communities called favelas.
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In Brazil's Favelas, Caught Between Police and Gangsters In his book "46750," João Pina captures the life of police, gang members and residents in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where all sides are seen as victims, in one way or another, of an untenable situation.
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Silva grew up on the mean streets of one of Rio's favelas -- ironically called City of God.
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") to forward-thinking (FastCo: "What Happens When World Cup Tourists Flood Rio's Favelas Looking for Cheap Rooms?
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Dias explains that Rocywood makes a conscious effort to include only people from favelas in its productions.
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The militias in Rio de Janeiro emerged to combat drug gangs in the city's violent hillside favelas.
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Bus tours through the favelas in Brazil or excursions that turn Indigenous communities into sideshows are gross.
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The winner in women's judo, Silva was raised in poverty in one of the city's infamous favelas.
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Like many favelas, Chacrinha is a kind of off-the-grid shantytown, at once neighborly and dangerous.
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"Police forces are invading the favelas every day and killing people, which is outrageous," Ms. Lemgruber said.
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He said that "City of God," the great and riveting Brazilian film on favelas, was his favorite.
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It's a city where the poor live in makeshift favelas that resemble something from William Gibson's nightmares.
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The music has also been toned down as it has moved from the favelas to the mainstream.
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I thought they were kind of objects filming for this impressionistic, almost psychedelic vision of the favelas.
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It is among the patchwork of districts known as favelas, which were settled by squatters decades ago.
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According to Leonardo, the transformations within Rio's cultural scene run deeper than the suburbs and the favelas.
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Some of these photos were taken in different favelas and others around the city of Rio de Janeiro.
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As for the violence, Cabral said that security in the favelas -- while never good -- appeared to be deteriorating.
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Brazil's mission to "formalize all of the city's favelas by 2020" is falling flat for residents like Gloria.
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She represented the Maré, [a series of favelas in northern Rio marked by military disputes and organized crime].
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TG: As you said, City of God, brought international attention to favelas, but what was the impact domestically?
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TG: During the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, the promotional videos didn't show the favelas at all.
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Nas favelas do meu país há um vazio do poder Estatal que foi ocupado por milícias e narcotraficantes.
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In the favelas of Brazil or the Mafia-run neighborhoods in Sicily the drug use was very obvious.
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In Brazil, you go to these favelas and they have a table and they sit there selling drugs.
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The initiative is among 111 projects in a network of sustainable solutions in the slums, known as favelas.
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Da Silva chega aos consumidores das favelas de Fortaleza, muitos dos quais não têm acesso imediato a supermercados.
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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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But the reality of life in Rio's favelas — which he placed at about 1,000 — remained at a distance.
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Removing favelas in Rio has historically been the last step toward realizing an area's potential real estate value.
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Samba schools are social clubs, really, fulcrums of community spirit tucked deep into a neighborhood, many in ramshackle favelas.
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Gloria is a 25-year resident of Villa União Curicica, one of the more than 1000 favelas in Rio.
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The city's population swelled—from 6.6m to 2280m between 2000 and 214—crowding into favelas (shantytowns) on its periphery.
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More than 12 million Brazilians live in favelas, and they're at the center of the nation's drug-trafficking problem.
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Remember years ago when I tattooed Rio on my neck, the tattoo was written by children in the favelas.
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From hipsterish food-trucks to hawkers in favelas (shantytowns), businesses use it to plug their wares and take orders.
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I have never done tours of favelas in Rio because I've never done tours of the projects in Chicago.
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Unlike other favelas which were destroyed in the 20153s and 70s during Brazil's military dictatorship, Providencia was spared demolition.
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In two days of wandering through favelas and working-class neighborhoods, I found Olympic excitement an often extinguished fire.
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Korir posted pictures of Team Kenya's accommodation on Wednesday evening, showing a dilapidated building in one of Rio's favelas.
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Gains made after police began a 'pacification' program in 2008, pushing drug gangs out of favelas, have been unraveling.
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The other is for public transit, connecting one of the city's sprawling favelas to the rest of the city.
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Drug gangs in the favelas are fiercely protective of the privacy of their operations from police and rival gangs.
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This has raised fears of creating favelas or shantytowns in the country with Roma families seen as particularly vulnerable.
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The same year, she took a huge white sheet, sliced at regular intervals, to one of Rio's many favelas.
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"But the favelas are areas we cannot control and the personal safety of our athletes must come first," he said.
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He calls drug traffickers and other criminals terrorists and defends the use of snipers to attack them in the favelas.
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The violence is typically concentrated in the favelas, the hilltop slums where heavily-armed drug gangs have long held sway.
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According to the Associated Press, 1.4 million residents reside in favelas without access to proper sanitation, health care and security.
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And that number may rise, since information on deaths in two favelas, Acari and Manguinhos, has yet to be confirmed.
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On August 8th Rafaela Silva, a black judoka raised in one of Rio's most violent favelas, won Brazil's first gold.
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Besides nailing down locations in Mongolia, Mr Sheldrick's system is also proving useful in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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People from favelas saw that what they were doing was relevant for people whose opinion matters a lot in Brazil.
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Yet late into the 20th century, favelas received little if any public services and were often left off official maps.
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Desde o início da pandemia, 70 por cento das famílias que vivem em favelas já sofreram com queda dos rendimentos.
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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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Santoro recalca que en vez de helicópteros que disparan indiscriminadamente a las favelas se necesitan medidas con un enfoque comunitario.
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Santoro recalca que en vez de helicópteros que disparan indiscriminadamente a las favelas se necesitan medidas con un enfoque comunitario.
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I wanted to show what they look like on the inside: Most international coverage of favelas focuses on drug violence.
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A recently released study by Rio-based NGO by Catalytic Communities found that coverage of the city's favelas in eight major global news sources increased drastically during Rio's Olympic cycle, from 45 total articles mentioning favelas in 2009, when Rio was named the host city, to 315 in the year leading up to the Olympics.
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A recently released study by Rio-based NGO by Catalytic Communities found that coverage of the city's favelas in eight major global news sources increased drastically during Rio's Olympic cycle, from 45 total articles mentioning favelas in 2009, when Rio was named the host city, to 315 in the year leading up to the Olympics.
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Why did the city allow favelas to be built directly under high capacity power lines, endangering the lives of those underneath?
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A Brazilian soldier strip-searches youths during a patrol near the Alemão favelas complex in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 22.
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It's located in a simple neighborhood not far from Engomadeira, one of the poorest and most dangerous favelas in the city.
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It is difficult for pollsters to reach both rich voters in gated communities and poor ones living in crime-ridden favelas.
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Its calm streets have an orderly feel at odds with popular images of Brazil's teeming favelas, chaotic traffic and violent crime.
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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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Those operations come as authorities seek to confront drug gangs that control many of Brazil&aposs slum networks known as favelas.
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"Most of the people here have a formal postal code, and addresses unlike other favelas," Vieira told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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On three of those trips, he conducted swim clinics in the favelas — Rio's notorious slums — always accompanied by a security detail.
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Promised upgrades to infrastructure in favelas across Rio have been abandoned and existing public services are at breaking point, residents said.
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Trash picking is a profession more often associated with shantytowns and favelas than a city at the doorstep of Silicon Valley.
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She noted that some of the soldiers who have been deployed to restless favelas in recent months hail from those communities.
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Today, most of their descendants live in the suburbs or favelas, and they still work for the wealthy in Rio's South Zone.
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Efforts to clean up the favelas have ranged from creating more infrastructure to wholesale evictions of residents to bulldozing of family homes.
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While many consider the favelas to be slums, families spend years building up their homes into decent-sized, functional, and comfortable spaces.
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The favelas, or slums, of Rio de Janeiro have had a lot of bad press in the run-up to the Olympics.
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So the company has been working with a local NGO, AfroReggae, for several years to plot out some of the city's favelas.
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"This was on my bucket list, to be honest with you; specifically to go to the favelas – forever," he told USA Today.
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Eight years ago, the government established the Pacifying Police Units, a heavily armed force that tries to reclaim favelas from the gangs.
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For years, Marielle Franco, a popular left-wing city councilwoman, spoke out against extrajudicial killings by police officers in the city's favelas.
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Because of Rio's financial crisis, plans fell apart to establish a network of policing outposts in Maré, one large area of favelas.
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In 2009, he founded Casa Amarela, a cultural and education center, in one of Rio's oldest favelas, which he still visits regularly.
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So-called Pacification Police Units established in the favelas were envisioned as the first step to bringing state services to the areas.
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Police like Fleiss, and politicians point to the 23 percent drop in homicides across Rio as justification for intensifying raids on favelas.
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In Brazil he was going to the favelas, learning Samba and that texture of his work really comes out in the Parangolés.
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She also said that drug traffickers in favelas regularly rape girls with impunity, because the victims are too scared to speak up.
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This matters a lot in [Brazil's slums known as] favelas, where young people's day-to-day lives are entrenched in poverty and violence.
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AOC spokesman Mike Tancred was also upbeat about the preparations in a statement on Wednesday but reiterated that the favelas remained off-limits.
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Overlooking the tired Olympic Village, the massive favelas that were supposed to be cleaned up before the games are as horrific as ever.
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In the crowded favelas of Rio de Janeiro, flying kites is more than a leisurely escape: It's also a playful form of battle.
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Meirelles is a Brazilian filmmaker known for his Oscar-nominated movie "City of God," an account of life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas.
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Morro da Providência, the oldest of Rio's roughly 1,000 iconic favelas, has stood for almost 120 years on the hillside overlooking Guanabara Bay.
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Public service and infrastructure spending that was supposed to accompany the militarized "pacification" of Rio's favelas has, in many cases, yet to materialize.
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"In the slums of Nairobi, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, we have individuals and organizations that [are] doing amazing work," says Andrés.
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The Yogyakarta press speculated that an unknown company had painted the houses so they would resemble the colorful favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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Doctors in Rio's favelas, or poor neighborhoods, calculate that up to 40 percent of their patients' illnesses result from contact with untreated sewage.
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We've seen this story so many times before—in the favelas of Brazil, in the suburbs of England, in the ghettos in Italy.
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In this episode of Stay Melo, we spend a day exploring some of the best views in Brazil and the favelas of Rio.
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"To the extent that you were reclaiming territories of the favelas from drug traffickers, you needed to create jobs," Ms. de Bolle added.
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Mas essa emergência de saúde pública e de crise econômica que afetará com mais força as favelas exige uma mudança de foco urgente.
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Unsurprisingly, the anti-crime legislation that Bolsonaro's government recently unveiled would likely expand protections for police officers who kill during incursions into favelas.
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He began spending time in Rio's hillside slums, or favelas, home to a population of working poor that the government wanted to expel.
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Vincent Soistier, Latin America director of the international security consultancy Amarante, says he expects the conflict to move into distribution points, primarily favelas.
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As I looked deeper, it came as no surprise that some of Brazil's most cherished and renowned cultural archetypes emerged from Rio's favelas.
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The 2014 World Cup in Brazil was the first time news broke internationally that tourists were choosing to stay in Rio de Janeiro's favelas.
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But for the mostly middle-class residents living in favelas closer to the city's center, this is not an accurate portrait of everyday life.
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"[Guimé's music] stopped resonating with his original audience, people who lived in poorer neighborhoods and favelas and who could not afford that," explains Barreiros.
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Many of these killings are concentrated in police operations, supposedly aimed at drug traffickers, in the largest of the slums that Rio calls favelas.
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For inspiration, Mr. Aravena drew on favelas and slums, building small housing units that can be easily expanded, while working closely with local residents.
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Evidence is emerging that appears to show ties between Mr Bolsonaro's family and paramilitary militias that operate in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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Favelas tower above the Olympic venues on Rio's mountains and are home to more the 25 percent of the city's population, according to NPR.
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"We wanted to show the reality of Rio's favelas, the rats, the shacks, the bodies covered by bin bags, the stray bullets," Costa said.
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But in the election Bolsonaro had gained voters in bedrock P.T. constituencies, including the favelas, where poor blacks make up the majority of residents.
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In the crowded favelas of Rio de Janeiro, flying kites is more than a leisurely escape: It's also a playful form of battle. 2.
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City of God remains one of Brazil's most famous films — and is also famous for bringing favelas to the forefront of the world's consciousness.
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Armed conflicts are a near daily occurrence in some favelas in Brazilian cities, with a frightening number of the deaths attributed to the police.
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Military operations in the favelas of Brazil have become commonplace, and the Brazilian Army is currently in charge of Rio de Janeiro's police force.
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This is what Ignatieff finds in Rio's favelas, in the municipal workers of Fukushima, in the haggard, persistent survivors of genocidal violence in Bosnia.
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"The second circuit, you literally go right next to one of the Favelas there," he said at Sky's training camp in Mallorca this year.
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And he proposed using snipers, some aboard helicopters, to gun down anyone spotted carrying a weapon in low-income urban communities known as favelas.
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"We have a team of 450 athletes, there is no way we could manage, or police, visits to the favelas by our athletes," Tancred said.
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Don't miss: Brazil's Rafaela Silva rose from the city's favelas to become a national judo hero but flopped in London and suffered racial abuse online.
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Veterans from the Canudos campaign would set up the first favelas in Rio de Janeiro, which soon were filled with migrants from the north-east.
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The city's notorious crime rate looms large, and Amnesty International has called attention to the death toll from police crackdowns in the favelas, or shantytowns.
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In September, Brazil's government sent soldiers to quell burgeoning violence in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, where its poorest citizens often crowd together in makeshift homes.
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She was 22, and a rising star in the world of carioca funk, throbbing syncopated dance music born in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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Much of the city and its favelas are controlled by organised criminals, who are difficult to prosecute because residents are terrified to testify against them.
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The new government plan replaces a 2009 initiative which combined property regularization with investments in sanitation and electricity in Brazil's low-income favelas, said Moreira.
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"For most Brazilians, they think that those of us living in favelas have little worth, that we have little drive, education or desire," Santos said.
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For Monastero, witnessing the violence of the favelas on a daily basis made it important for him to create a game where there was none.
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Whether they live on Rio's glitzy seafront, in one of the city's 1,000-odd favelas (shantytowns) or in dowdy dormitory districts, the mood is grim.
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"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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Activists might have forced the Olympics to truly integrate into the lifeblood of the city, incorporating favelas no less than the beach community of Barra.
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On the route from the international airport to the south shore, Olympic organizers put up colorful walls so that visitors could not see the favelas.
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When gang and drug violence erupted in other favelas, families would send their kids to friends and relatives in Vila Autódromo to keep them safe.
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Luxury apartments and favelas are right next to each other, and while some lucky Brazilians are vacationing in Europe, others can barely make ends meet.
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Thanks to a disparity of wealth, Brazil's middle class live next to both sprawling favelas riddled with gang violence and the hilltop mansions of oil tycoons.
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Brazilian cinema has produced several award-winning contributions, with subject matters ranging from life in the favelas to political oppression to that old standard: first love.
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Like so much of this dichotomous city, away from the beaches and into the hills and into the favelas, things seemed both under construction and crumbling.
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Because Uber does not show a driver the destination of a potential passenger before they accept the ride, some find themselves in favelas late at night.
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A poll conducted in August in 37 favelas found that 44% of residents want UPPs to be improved, for example with better training, but not dissolved.
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Many suspect that the murderers of Ms Franco are members of "militias" controlled by serving and former police officers, which run extortion rings in some favelas.
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Starting in 2008 it sent heavily armed troops into 38 favelas to evict drug gangs, then set up "pacification police units" (UPPs) to keep the peace.
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After early success in 2008-12, Rio's "pacification" policy—evicting gang leaders from favelas with heavily armed troops, then creating community-based policing units—has flagged.
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The United Nations has said it's concerned about violence by the military police and the officers in the favelas, notably against children living on the streets.
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"Sharkification" (2015) looks at violence in Rio de Janeiro by photographing favelas with blue filters that give the scenes the aquamarine glow of a coral reef.
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Once in power, she quickly established herself as a voice for people in the city's favelas, where extreme poverty, gang activity and police brutality are common.
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But for all the attention paid to the violence in favelas, I found the peaceful, resourceful, and creative forces at play much more interesting and inspiring.
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"A lot of money will come in, but whose pockets will it go into?" asked Lucia Cabral, a community activist in Alemao, one of Rio's largest favelas.
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It was a tacit acknowledgment that its "pacification" program, a security strategy to rein in crime in several favelas before it hosted the 2016 Olympics, had failed.
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In many ways, the looming Olympic Games have already transformed Rio's favelas, the city's informal settlements that serve as home to a quarter of the city's residents.
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"But unless you address the overall security situation in Brazil, and bring in a raft of measures—particularly in favelas—none of it will mean very much."
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City of God Happenings is part of a "boom in community-focused media in Brazil's favelas", said Stuart Davis, a communications professor at Texas A&M University.
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In 2015, for example, the New York Times Magazine profiled Santiago and Colectivo Papo Reto in a feature about the rise of citizen journalism in Rio's favelas.
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In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, for example, the services provided by gangs — from subsidized electricity to road repair — sometimes outstrip those provided by the government.
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She was shot dead in March, a murder which investigators have linked to her many years of denouncing militia activity in Rio's shanty towns, known as favelas.
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But as the economic conditions have gotten worse, many of the problems that have plagued the favelas for years with drugs and violence have come back again.
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The story of Rocket growing up in the crime-ridden favelas of Rio de Janeiro has received such widespread acclaim, few today would think to recommend it.
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Nas favelas, a situação é ainda mais precária: só 19 por cento têm trabalho com carteira assinada, o que garante, por exemplo, o pagamento de seguro desemprego.
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A 2013 academic report concluded that of the roughly 1,000 favelas in the city, 45 percent are controlled by militia organizations and 37 percent by drug gangs.
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More than 20 percent of Rio de Janeiro's 6.5 million residents live in favelas, with most lacking formal property deeds - a trend seen across Brazil's major cities.
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RÍO DE JANEIRO — Los habitantes de las favelas de Río de Janeiro, en Brasil, conocen bien el sonido de los vehículos militares blindados de la policía militar.
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Favelas provided the backdrop, and Rio's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue could be seen up high and to the right, embracing the city with its outstretched arms.
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A 2013 academic report concluded that of the roughly 1,000 favelas in the city, 20163 percent are controlled by militia organizations and 37 percent by drug gangs.
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"I think kids now see there is an opportunity other than football or soccer, another way to get out of the favelas," Larkin said of Brazil's urban slums.
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A group of children from Rio's favelas wrote letters to the city's courts asking them to get the police to cease this type of operation around their homes.
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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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It's primarily happening in the city's favelas "where poverty, drug gangs and young men with assault rifles dominate life for hundreds of thousands of residents," the AP reports.
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Its preliminary findings highlighted threats to the rights of people living in favelas, which have become areas of intense crime and battles with the police, and black women.
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Today's urban favelas are largely inhabited by descendants of slaves who emigrated from Brazil's agricultural northeast in search of work and at least some amenities of modern life.
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The devilishly complex struggle for control of many favelas, the largely poor areas that often emerged as squatter settlements in Rio, is still grinding on, security experts say.
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Drug gangs dominate favelas near the city center, the airport, the harbor and the main highways, from where it's easier to control the distribution of arms and drugs.
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The projects were mapped in a report launched last week by Catalytic Communities (CatComm), a charity that works with people in favelas toward better integration of informal settlements.
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In 2008, the government established a network of so-called Pacification Police Units in favelas across the city in an effort to wrest territorial control from criminal groups.
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In the 1970s, she taught architecture at the Universidade Santa Úrsula in Rio de Janeiro, where she made a point of having students study favelas and improvised architecture.
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It's part of a suite of Maps updates for the games, including updated Street View images and a more ambitious effort to map Rio de Janeiro's famed favelas.
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Police pushed drug gangs out of those favelas, where they held sway with impunity for decades, and then set up permanent posts in the communities for the first time.
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"Rocywood" movies — inspired by Hollywood — portray local realities in the favelas, from the joys of growing up in a tight-knit neighborhood to the difficulties of living among violence.
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Once again he was travelling to exotic places, bumping down unmade roads in trucks, eyebrows flaring; but this time to visit schools in favelas or hospitals in the bush.
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With the evolution of violence inside prisons and favelas in the city, many prisoners and residents began seeing it was a better option to have the PCC in power.
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The reluctance to take things forward often comes from the police, because they know that given the complex power dynamics in the favelas, achieving a prosecution will be difficult.
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Though badminton rackets and shuttlecocks are as rare as police in some favelas, a coach had set up a program to teach the sport to kids in the community.
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It's the principle driving the creation of banlieues and favelas: Everything that is considered a surplus, a piece of waste, is just moved towards the outskirts of the city.
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Starting in 2008 the Rio de Janeiro state government sent troops into 38 favelas (shantytowns) to evict drug gangs, then set up "pacification police units" to keep the peace.
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Initially a planned neighborhood, its first wave of residents had formal property title deeds allowing them to buy and sell their small homes in the market, unlike nearby favelas.
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It also warns travelers against visiting "favelas" (housing developments), catching buses in certain areas, or visiting Brazil's satellite cities of Ceilandia, Santa Maria, Sao Sebastiao, and Paranoa after sunset.
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While favelas didn't quite reach middle class status, lots of people, like Santiago, were lifted out of dire poverty and now had resources to purchase smartphones, tablets, and computers.
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The effort was meant bring security ahead of the Olympics and the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament, with the promised legacy of delivering basic social services to the favelas.
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Related: The Cops Trying to 'Pacify' Rio's Favelas Are Psychologically Scarred Edvania da Conceição, 33, runs a mini-mart on the side of the main road through the town.
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Our video also takes a closer look at the aggressive policing that already takes place inside Rio's favelas, and how Mr. Bolsonaro might amplify these efforts while in office.
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Children can't go to school because of the police raids and violent conflicts with the gangs in the favelas, which often prove unsuccessful and do more harm than good.
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Most residents of Brazil's informal settlements, or favelas, a key source of housing for the working poor, do not have formal deeds certifying that they own their ramshackle properties.
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Esa carta, en su simplicidad, revela algo que debería ser claro para todos: se deben establecer mecanismos que garanticen los derechos humanos en las operaciones policiales en las favelas.
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En marzo de 2018, la mataron por ser una de las voces más persistentes en denunciar a grupos paramilitares que operan como crimen organizado en las favelas de Río.
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With precariously built homes and makeshift infrastructure, the city of Rio de Janeiro's hillside poor neighborhoods, or favelas, are commonly the hardest hit during the summer's heavy rain season.
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There is little appetite for the Olympics, as seen in signs at occupied schools and community organizing in favelas in response to forced removals to make way for Olympics facilities.
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Those efforts include a massive security push in some of the city's favelas ahead of the 21985 Olympic Games, and a more recent state-wide military intervention launched in February.
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He has traveled the world filming in places like the tent cities of Haiti and the favelas of Rio, bringing exposure to the economic and social disparities in disadvantaged countries.
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As covered in a recent article, samba schools in Rio de Janeiro are more like social clubs, fulcrums of community spirit tucked deep into a neighborhood, many in ramshackle favelas.
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More than 20 percent of Brazilians in large cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo live in favelas - informal communities that often lack basic infrastructure and property title deeds.
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The producers looked outward rather than inward, celebrating Brazil's cannibal appropriation of other cultures to feed its own creations: bossa nova and the funk of Rio's favelas (shantytowns), for example.
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To keep order in vulnerable favelas, resources have had to be shunted from better-off areas in the South Zone, home to Rio's famous beaches and most of its hotels.
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But where the Brazilian post office does not deliver in favelas, local delivery service Carteiro Amigo has been using the three-word address system to safely deliver letters and parcels.
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Comentario En la ciudad se ha dado un paso más hacia la deshumanización como política de Estado: en las operaciones policiacas se dispara ciegamente contra los habitantes de las favelas.
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Complexo do Alemão is a group of favelas (the name Brazilians have given to low-income, unplanned and unregulated neighborhoods) that houses about 70,000 residents in the north of Rio.
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The infamous "milícias," in their current form, were established in Rio de Janeiro's favelas in the late 1990s and early 2000s, under the pretext of protecting residents from drug traffickers.
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That equipment is used to give children from the favelas judo training, and put them on the road to becoming Olympians -- who might one day whoop-up on American judo fighters.
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"Our main mission is to challenge our perception of slums, favelas, ghettos and other informal settlements around the world, and to acknowledge the citizenship and creativity of these people," he said.
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In the crowded urban favelas, flying a kite (or pipa) is more than a leisurely escape from harsh living conditions; it's also a form of battle, with the sky an arena.
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The show's premise is familiar, if not downright cliché: It takes place in a future São Paulo not far removed from some of the most crowded, impoverished favelas of today's Brazil.
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But Drake is a psychopath, who doesn't merely spoil tombs in his jumbled quest for riches and self-identity, but leaves entire villages and favelas with millions of dollars in damages.
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During this correspondent's four-day stay in Santa Teresa, a hilly district of trendy eateries and hotels, not a night went by without the crackle of gunshots from nearby favelas (shantytowns).
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The explosion of free social networking platforms has allowed poor residents of favelas, communities where residents often lack formal property rights and worry about being displaced, to tell their own stories.
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In any case, an increased global visibility for funk would possibly result in a perpetuating of the stereotype that Brazil is just its favelas, which means guns, drugs, and gyrating buttocks.
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Revitalizing Rio's crime-ridden favelas or slums has proven to be a tall order as many areas were unpatrolled for decades and largely left to be governed by local crime lords.
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"They're all pregnant," said Helen Téofilo, who is 16 and lives in the most dangerous part of the Cidade de Deus, or City of God, one of Rio's most violent favelas.
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Preparations for South America's first Olympics have been dogged by concerns over the polluted bay where sailing events will be held, and violence spilling over from heavily policed slums, or favelas.
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"Summary executions are being carried out in favelas and other peripheral areas," said Renata Souza, a state representative who urged the United Nations and the Organization of American States to investigate.
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Over the past few days, Brazilian television stations have broadcast images of bloody shootouts in the city's favelas, and of Carnival tourists being chased down Ipanema Beach and beaten by robbers.
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The coverage also became more nuanced, with less emphasis on violence and drugs and more on favelas having a strong sense of community and its residents being active agents of change.
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The British reporter interviewed former sicarios in Mexican prisons, rode shotgun with police through Venezuelan slums, and investigated crime lords in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and shantytowns of Kingston.
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Not fully slums but not fully integrated into the city either, these favelas are home to both horrific gang violence and some of the most creative and resourceful people in Rio.
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Andreia Lima and her husband, Hugo Costa, were showing me around their neighborhood, Ramos, in Rio's North Zone, the most populous area of Rio and site of many of the city's favelas.
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"The UPPs in Complexo do Alemão or Rocinha or Cidade de Deus (three sprawling Rio favelas) are hated by locals because of the aggressive behavior and corruption of the police," he said.
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The half empty blocks of high rise on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro were proof that residents often chose to return to the favelas than negotiate daily, two-hour-plus commutes.
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Franco, a black, queer activist turned politician, had long been a vocal critic of police brutality in the favelas of Rio and a known champion of women, single mothers, and poor people.
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If the government provided people with decent public services, taxed them fairly and cracked down on the corruption which keeps state spending from reaching them, lawlessness in the favelas would eventually fall.
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Andre Pederneiras, owner of the Nova Uniao team, has produced scores of world class fighters from the favelas of Rio De Janeiro and changed the lives of whole families in the process.
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I would say to folks, as much as possible, tune into some of the voices coming out of Rio itself, people working and writing from the favelas who have a grassroots perspective.
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It was an historic first for the 22-year-old kid from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro as Coelho became the first Brazilian to win gold in the men's singles competition.
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A deep recession and a retreat from the city's previous "pacification" policy—evicting gang leaders from favelas with heavily armed troops, then creating community-based policing units—are, in part, to blame.
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The images were captured by mobile phone on July 4th from a cable car hoisted above Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's notorious favelas (shantytowns), and shared on social media.
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To make matters worse, the state government of Rio, responsible for some services in Providencia and other favelas in the city, is essentially broke and has been unable to pay its debts.
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For many, the pride was especially poignant because the winner, Rafaela Silva, is a black woman who grew up in the City of God, one of Rio's most impoverished favelas, or slums.
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Other places, like Brazil's favelas, are very much within a country's sovereign territory, but in reality are places where the central government cannot, for various reasons, reliably enforce the rule of law.
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The thousands of workers who had traveled from the less industrialized parts of the country were left stranded in the low-income housing, or favelas, that had been hastily erected during construction.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO From the beginning of "Falcon," Jaden Smith is in a rush, rapping with a loose ranginess over a beat that sounds like baile funk, the intense soundtrack of Brazilian favelas.
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Although more civilians are joining, the militias have been dominated by active-duty and retired police officers, who essentially assume control of suburban slums, or favelas, under the guise of defending them.
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Along with efforts to clean up its bay and bolster its airport, the city and the state of Rio de Janeiro launched "pacifying unit police forces" to regain control of the favelas.
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Coupled with a current nationwide sweep on corruption known as the "Carwash," times are tough for the political and business elite, let alone a man from the favelas trying to make a living.
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Mr Vieira da Silva is one of the owners of Carteiro Amigo, a company that has delivered letters in Rio's favelas since 2000 by compiling directions to residents who pay for the service.
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Thousands of people who live in favelas — Rio's notorious slums — have been ousted from their homes, often relocated hours from their schools and jobs, to make way for the needs of the Olympics.
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The mosquitoes biting people in the crammed favelas of Rio de Janeiro were not the Aedes africanus, linked to the Zika virus in Africa, but Aedes aegypti; and they preyed on humans aggressively.
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Certain favelas, the urban areas here that largely coalesced as squatter settlements, are festering with ire over the Games — especially those that were literally torn apart to make way for the Olympic overhaul.
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"The Olympics have led to displacement, gentrification and sweet deals for real estate developers and construction companies," said Theresa Williamson, the executive director of Catalytic Communities, an advocacy group for the city's favelas.
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In Complexo do Alemão, a large group of favelas, a flare-up of gun battles since the start of the Olympics has left at least two residents dead and two police officials wounded.
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But the show of force has also drawn criticism from human rights activists who fear that overly aggressive policing might lead to abuses, especially in the city's low-income communities, known as favelas.
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In this particular case Feigen has reportedly agreed to pay 35,000 reals (about $10,800) which will be given to a charity that teaches Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Judo to kids in the favelas.
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Ms. Franco grew up in Maré, a district in northern Rio de Janeiro that is among the largest in the city's constellation of favelas, largely impoverished districts that were initially settled by squatters.
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In 2015 there was a brief decline in violence brought about by a police strategy that sought to reduce crime in the favelas through a combination of saturation policing and social-assistance programmes.
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Mas não para 13 milhões de pessoas que vivem nas favelas do Brasil: com uma alta densidade demográfica, serviços básicos — como água e luz — deficientes e, muitas vezes, sem nenhum sistema de esgoto.
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Pese al clima de violencia y hostilidad que han creado los helicópteros de Witzel, los habitantes de las favelas sienten una fuerte conexión a sus barrios y tienen un profundo sentido de pertenencia.
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"As a member of Rio de Janeiro's State Human Rights Commission, Marielle worked tirelessly to defend the rights of black women and young people in the favelas and other marginalized communities," Werneck said.
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Adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, who grew up in the favelas, the film centers on Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues), whose passion for photography becomes his gateway out of the violence.
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Grand plans were drawn up to establish a permanent police presence in, and deliver basic services to, the favelas, as the country prepared for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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But too much of its overall design feels borrowed, by turns evoking the monochromatic clutter of "District 9," the vertical favelas of "Ready Player One" and the randomly milling, anonymous hordes of whatever.
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Rio's colorful hillside shanty towns, called favelas, are rife with drug trafficking and armed violence, despite a "pacification" program that placed police stations in some of them, and can be dangerous for curious visitors.
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In a country that sees an abundance of sunshine, harnessing the power of the sun to bring affordable electricity to low-income families in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro is a no-brainer.
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No matter the nook or cranny, neighbors are eager to greet him anywhere he goes in maze-like Rocinha, one of the biggest and best-known slums, or favelas, that dot the city landscape.
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"I lied down on the floor, hugging my mom," said Richard, who lives in a one-room home in the sprawling Complexo do Alemão group of favelas with his mother and his three sisters.
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The Villa Maria Del Triunfo sports complex, which stages rugby sevens, field hockey and other events, is sandwiched between two towering favelas — the impoverished neighborhoods offering a stark contrast to the sparkling new facilities.
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"I lied down on the floor, hugging my mom," said Richard, who lives in a one-room home in the sprawling Complexo do Alemão group of favelas with his mother and his three sisters.
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In advance of the 2014 World Cup and now the Olympics, the police and the military pushed at the point of semiautomatic rifles and armored cars into hundreds of favelas in brutal pacification campaigns.
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Even left-leaning naysayers were cheered by the nod to Brazil's stain of slavery, the paean to Rio's favelas and the appearances of Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, musical giants who back Ms. Rousseff.
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By the mid-1980s, the astonishing profits accrued from the prohibited commodity enabled the relatively benign criminal gangs that had always existed in Rio's slums, or favelas, to equip themselves with frighteningly potent weapons.
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Plans to install a UPP, or Police Pacification Unit, in Maré, one of Rio's biggest and most violent favelas which sprawls along the main thoroughfare to the city's international airport, have also been shelved.
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Their markets include Tokyo, London, and Brazil, the world's second largest market after the US, where cheap, partially-processed and highly addictive cocaine paste, known as bazuco or paco, is popular in the favelas.
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The winner of the 2100 Pritzker, regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture, Aravena says the vast 'favelas' in cities such as Rio de Janeiro highlight human resilience and the instinctive capacity for home-building.
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He has tapped Heleno to be his top national security advisor and wants the former general and other ex-Haiti hands to tame Brazil's favelas using methods employed in the slums of Port-au-Prince.
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It seems as though the IOC and Brazilian organisers largely succeeded in averting our eyes from the true scale of the horror, as advertising monoliths and hastily erected brick walls shielded the favelas from view.
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But his breakout role was the homicidal avenger Knockout Ned in City Of God, Fernando Meirelles' graphic 2002 study of the spiraling ultra-violence of internecine gangster warfare in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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The City of God, in contrast, was purpose-built in the 1960s for Brazilians displaced by natural disasters in other parts of the country or people forced out of favelas near wealthy enclaves of Rio.
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Now I know how Belize cheers for Simone Biles; what synchronized divers say to one another before the plunge; how easily table tennis balls crumple; how Brazil's judo champion, Rafaela Silva, emerged from Rio's favelas.
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Security experts who track gunfights in Rio de Janeiro have documented dozens of such episodes in favelas like Alemão since the Olympics started last week, raising questions about the huge security operation for the Games.
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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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Depending on whom you ask, and where they live, the program is seen as a successful operation—making once-dangerous favelas attractive to tourists—or a disastrous occupation leading to horrible violence on the streets.
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His works have been pasted on "buildings of the slums around Paris, on the walls in the Middle-East, on the broken bridges in Africa or the favelas in Brazil," according to his website, jr-art.net.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes has described Australia's Olympic committee as a "source of aggressions" against Brazil after it banned the team's athletes from visiting the city's favelas during the Games in August.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The sleek concrete and glass rooftop Bar da Lage is nestled in a sea of illegally built red brick houses in one of Rio De Janeiro's notoriously tough hillside favelas.
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Some Optional Discussion Questions Our next Film Club discussion will be on the five-minute film "Kite Fight," about how flying kites in the crowded favelas of Rio de Janeiro is more than a leisurely escape.
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In 2009, when Rio de Janeiro won its bid to host the Olympics, the authorities envisioned their self-described "pacification" of Alemão and other favelas as a crucial factor in their plan to resurrect Rio's fortunes.
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The newly elected governor of Rio de Janeiro state recently initiated a "shoot to kill" policy against armed criminals and recommended that police helicopters patrolling the favelas carry snipers to "slaughter" anyone openly carrying a weapon.
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And despite an enormous security presence, the city's penchant for lawlessness has not been completely stanched, with gun battles between drug dealers and the police terrorizing residents of Complexo do Alemão, a sprawling collection of favelas.
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Even if I'm accused of being in league with our adversaries, I think we should talk about the wall that was built alongside the road from Rio's international airport to cover the view of the favelas.
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In the 1970s, common criminals from the city's favelas were locked up during the military dictatorship in the Cândido Mendes prison on Ilha Grande, which lies an hour's boat ride from the coast west of Rio.
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Brazil has hidden its favelas, famously crime-ridden poor neighborhoods, from international visitors flooding into town; it hasn't been able to improve lives there in the way it hoped to when it won the Olympic bid.
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But after hosting the 21975 Summer Olympics, Rio experienced economic turmoil and political upheaval — it is fair to say that the city is as famous for its glamorous Ipanema Beach as it is its impoverished favelas.
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Basically, it was a back-to-the-roots movement by a bunch of white kids enshrining Samba from black people in the favelas or folk music from northeastern Brazil as the only possible authentic Brazilian music.
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A recent rain is steaming off the streets of Pau da Lima, one of the poorest favelas -- slums -- in the northeastern city of Salvador, the third largest in Brazil, and one of the hardest hit by Zika.
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I've spent time on assignment in the favelas of Brazil and the killing fields of Colombia and it was amazing that in New York City these boys were born into a life that was just as dangerous.
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And to be here with some of our trainees from Brazil who live in the favelas means the world to us because they are the solution and we are curating some of the menus you know food waste.
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Rio de Janeiro chose an unexpected partner to create this symbol of Brazil, which will be seen by three billion people: Fernando Meirelles, best known for his grim depiction of Rio's crime-ridden favelas in City of God.
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In a country that has more than 63,000 homicides a year and where there are several areas dominated by gangs in big cities, including Rio's favelas, this hard-line approach against the crime has resonated with the voters.
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The growth of community-run media in the City of God, internationally notorious because of the gangster movie that bears its name, is part of a broader trend in Rio's often-violent slums or favelas, media experts said.
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One afternoon, I visited Marcelo Freixo, a fifty-one-year-old congressman from Franco's party, who has spent years investigating Rio's milícias —paramilitary groups, linked to the police, that compete for territory with criminal gangs in the favelas.
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As in Rio, so in New York he kept to the fringes, exploring the city's gay life, visiting the favelas of the South Bronx, enmeshing himself, through his use and sale of cocaine, in the local drug culture.
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Specifically, the new governments could have worked to make life more bearable for the poverty-stricken families in the favelas by funding libraries and schools, and building a transit system so parents could get to and from good jobs.
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Despite this, in many developing economies, the engine room of job creation is found in the heart of informal economies like those in the favelas of Rio or the bustling hives of activity in big Indian cities like Mumbai.
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But while acknowledging the dire state of Rio's public finances — the underfunded schools and hospitals, the unpaid government salaries and the unmitigated misery of its hilltop favelas — some experts say the Olympics will provide benefits for years to come.
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Related: Meet the Elite Cops Cleaning Up Rio's Favelas Press reports from the day of Silva's death stressed the official version that the victim was found in possession of a 22011 calibre pistol, a radio, and a bulletproof vest.
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Activists blame much of the brutality on the so-called "pacification" security strategy of recent years, focused on heavily armed police units setting up in big city favelas and setting out to reclaim territory from drug gangs by force.
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The state's security forces have always been violent and unaccountable for their actions in the favelas, but things have gotten even worse under the country's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, and an ally, Rio de Janeiro's governor Wilson Witzel.
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The state's security forces have always been violent and unaccountable for their actions in the favelas, but things have gotten even worse under the country's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, and an ally, Rio de Janeiro's governor Wilson Witzel.
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The vast majority of victims are young, black, male and poor, and often live in the favelas, or slums, where gang warfare has been most pronounced, said Renato Sérgio de Lima, director of the Brazilian Forum of Public Security.
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But, unlike residents of other favelas, or informal settlements, that are home to more than 20 percent of the city's population, many residents of Vila Autodromo had property titles - granted to them during a long struggle for land rights.
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His black-and-white images can be stark, surreal and unsettling: from gun-toting youths and heavily armed troops to children playing in favelas, where high-rises loom on the horizon and bloody corpses wait to be picked up.
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The violence in Rocinha is one more sign of the backsliding since the launch of a "pacification" program in 2008 to reduce violence by pushing out drug gangs and setting up permanent outposts in the city's more than 1,000 favelas.
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In a frighteningly mismanaged attempt to get Rio ready for these global spectacles, the favelas have also suffered, resulting in dystopian visions of people being driven from their homes, vicious protests, bulldozed neighborhoods and cranes hovering over half-finished venues.
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A mere 0.001 per cent of the city's favelas appeared on maps — and with one in five Rio residents living in them, that meant 1.4 million people had no address to list on job applications or bank accounts, Google says.
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The problems of rural Alabama are not as dire as those of the poorest favelas (Brazilian slums) in Recife -- the quality of water is higher, the population density lower, the epidemiological surveillance better and the overall public health system stronger.
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It aims to use food that would otherwise have been thrown away to serve 5,000 meals every day in the city's favelas, the informal neighbourhoods that house Rio's poorest communities and are witness to much of the country's drug-related violence.
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The favelas, home to more than 20 percent of the city's population, received upgrades to their transportation links and other services as part of this wave of public spending before the recession, said an official from the Rio state government.
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In 267, it was used as the foundation of M.I.A.'s "Bucky Done Gun," part of the moment when M.I.A., Diplo and hordes of followers began bringing baile funk from the favelas out onto hipster dance floors across the globe.
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Professor Julita Lemgruber, the coordinator of the Center for Studies on Public Security and Citizenship at Candido Mendes University in Rio, said the rise in street crime was partly tied to failed efforts to improve public security in the city's favelas.
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"The cocaine case in the presidential plane shows the error of pursuing a war on drugs in Brazilian favelas, which victimizes the poor," he said in a statement, referring to low-income communities that have become violent battlegrounds in the trade.
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Franco, a member of Rio de Janeiro's City Council and a human rights advocate against the paramilitary gangs that control the city's favelas, was murdered, possibly by a former police officer with connections to Bolsonaro, seven months before the presidential election.
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Mas enquanto especialistas asseguram que a COVID-19 golpeará desproporcionalmente os mais pobres, Bolsonaro não apenas não tem um plano estratégico para enfrentar a emergência nas favelas, como sequer admite que o país está passando por uma crise de saúde pública.
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From the deadly streets of Manila to Brazilian favelas, Colombian cocaine farms, and opium dens in Iran, former drug dealer Niko Vorobyov has traveled the globe to get a better understanding of the people that make the drug trade tick.
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Suddenly, that number becomes fraught with meaning: for the narco gangs that rule over Rio's favelas; for the police and the military, which either fight or take bribes from them; and for the population that is caught in the middle.
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Ms. Franco was a black, feminist L.G.B.T. activist, a fierce human-rights defender who wasn't afraid to take on sensitive issues: the use of state violence in favelas, for instance, or the involvement of police and politicians in Rio's paramilitary groups.
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During the Olympics, his company will host tours with NGOs in ten different neighborhoods, selling immersive experiences like a walk through Vidigal led by five local actors roleplaying the history of Brazil and its favelas, capped off by a dinner at the hostel.
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She lives in one of the barrios, the country's favelas, where she said she has had no access to basics such as milk or rice for weeks, and where she has to wait up to 12 hours in line at her local store.
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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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"The technical knowledge among engineers, researchers and the very communities affected by heavy rain is sufficient to address this problem, even as it worsens with global climate change," said civil engineer Mauricio Campos, who has evaluated landslide risk in 10 Rio favelas.
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And what I mean by that is look, we live in a Hobbesian world in which a lot of these problems, gang violence, domestic violence, these are epidemic -- particularly you know the favelas in Brazil, the slums of Bombay, all over China.
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Marielle Franco was a mother; a black woman who identified with the LGBT community and came from the Complexo da Maré, a series of favelas in northern Rio de Janeiro plagued by organized crime and military disputes; a sociologist; and a politician.
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Yet Da Costa, who is now one of 233 million people who lives in the favelas, or slums, is not happy about the possibility that President Dilma Rousseff could be impeached and her government brought down over allegations of fiddling public finances.
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Yet Da Costa, who is now one of 22014 million people who lives in the favelas, or slums, is not happy about the possibility that President Dilma Rousseff could be impeached and her government brought down over allegations of fiddling public finances.
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That any people should have to face the serious health consequences of sewage-contaminated water is unacceptable, be they world-class athletes or the residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas who endure a life without clean water, toilets or hygiene every day.
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"La esperanza es un arma poderosa incluso cuando todo lo demás está perdido", escribió en una de sus cartas desde prisión, un sentimiento que probablemente hará eco en zonas azotadas actualmente por la violencia, como las favelas de Río de Janeiro o Nicaragua.
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Destroying the Amazon to stimulate the economy in the short term, as Mr. Bolsonaro proposes, will only displace more small farmers, nut gatherers and fishermen toward the peripheries of cities such as Manaus or Belém, where the favelas grow day by day.
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While Rio de Janeiro may be best known for its fantastic beaches and hillside favelas, the city, which was Brazil's capital until 1960, remains one of the country's major business centers, and its downtown is crowded with high-rises and corporate headquarters.
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Pape, a Brazilian artist who was born in 21974 in Rio de Janeiro, where she also died in 21973, performed this piece during the military dictatorship, first with children from favelas and later in the gardens surrounding Rio's Museum of Modern Art.
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Funk is also miles removed from the cloying and ubiquitous sertanejo music (a sort of Brazilian country-pop but way less cool than that sounds) that Teló's hit epitomizes, as it's grimy and vital with the tenacity of the low-income favelas it started in.
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In February 2014, he released "Bin Laden Não Morreu" on the record label and management agency KL Produtora, whose owner Emerson Martins was quick to notice the way to song was catching on to the Fluxos, a kind of party common to the favelas.
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Police struggled to maintain security gains in favelas in the run-up to the 2016 Olympics in Rio and have continued to lose ground as a fiscal crisis in the city and state lead to cutbacks in spending on police and other essential services.
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" Just a day later, Atila Roque, executive director of Amnesty International Brazil, said in a statement, "We ended the Olympic Games with even more militarized public security policies, focused on a very selective repression, excessive use of force and combat-like police operations in favelas.
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"What you tend to get is a rapid informalization and peripheralization of the population as they are pushed to the margins, and your surplus labor, as it were, ends up living in slums, or what we call here favelas or shanty towns," Muggah said.
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As dread persists over street violence and gun battles rage in Rio's favelas, some Brazilians worry about what will happen in the aftermath of the Games, when the soldiers are withdrawn and the city is left on its own to grapple with a financial crisis.
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In 272, when Brazil was preparing to host the 2812 World Cup, and was bidding for the 210 Olympics, government officials launched an ambitious plan to secure the city's favelas, a patchwork of unplanned hillside communities that had long been neglected by the government.
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A steady police presence was supposed to root out the organized crime networks that had become the de facto authority in the favelas, and then the plan called for gradually expanding access to decent sanitation, health care and education to the historically marginalized communities.
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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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Like other companies that use image sharing to help with medical diagnoses, the data is anonymized Urban 3D: Founder Anielle Guedes spent three years working in favelas in Sao Paulo to understand the housing needs of Brazilians and came away with an idea for this startup.
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There are generally two possible paths in attacking this scourge: The first is to pacify the suppliers and traffickers by offering them entry to the general society — create jobs that will support legitimate commerce and invest in social projects to improve education and infrastructure in the favelas.
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Agência Pública, which concentrates on human rights, has revealed abuse of young black men in favelas by police and a secret deal between the government and mining companies to hold down compensation to the families of 17 people who died after a dam collapsed in 133.
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Last week, the NGO Health Poverty Action (HPA) released a report looking at the drug trade in Brazil and India, exploring exactly how drug gangs have taken over Brazil's favelas [slums], and how illicit poppy production has formed an entire alternate economy in rural northern India.
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The #makethefuture movement started in 2014 in one of Rio's favelas with Pavegen and Pele, and in 2015 moved on to Lagos, Nigeria, where a collaboration with musical superstar Akon launched another football pitch that's powered by the kinetic energy from the feet that run across it.
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During the two weeks of the Olympics the world watches in awe as the best athletes in the world compete for the highest honor in sports while completely overlooking the reality that many children are facing just next door, in the favelas that surround the stadiums.
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In favelas that are not cleared but subject to intense patrols, hundreds of residents have fallen victim to Brazil's military police—or what Amnesty International called a "trigger-happy" force that seems to be conducting a "shoot first, ask questions later" strategy in its pacification campaign.
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Long before the Olympics began, I started chronicling the complex war for control over Complexo de Alemão, the vast maze of favelas thought to be named for Leonard Kaczmarkiewicz, a Polish immigrant who once owned the land in Rio's north zone where squatters put down stakes.
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The killing of Jimenez, the third tourist to be shot dead in the favelas in less than 12 months, shines a light on Rio's deteriorating crime situation, and comes a month after Brazilian military personnel were deployed to Rocinha to curb violence between rival drug gangs.
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The result was as predictable as a tourist walking into one of the city's notorious favelas flashing a fistful of hundred dollar bills with Senegal searching for their first Olympic win going up against the all-conquering U.S., a true Olympic dynasty riding a 41-Games unbeaten run.
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But given the state Brazil finds itself in lately—and the erosion of the uneasy peace the government brought to the favelas during the 2010 World Cup—Meirelles may just be the person most well-suited to tell a story of national pride, while acknowledging the country's problems.
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The most beautiful city on the planet appears, by some measure, as the most sophisticated of the capitals examined in this exhibition, though the photographers and mapmakers here had far more interest in Rio's boulevards and gardens than its favelas, the first of which arose in the 1890s.
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Before Daniel Monastero—one of the founding members of Garage 227 Studios and the studio's primary 3D modeler and texture artist—became a game developer, he was a member of Brazil's military police, cracking down on drug trafficking and other violent crimes in the favelas of São Paulo.
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Este fin de semana, cuando se confirmaron los primeros casos de coronavirus en las favelas de Brasil, los residentes que sobreviven con salarios miserables y tienen que lidiar con la violencia desenfrenada, la falta de servicios sanitarios y el hacinamiento, se prepararon para una nueva serie de circunstancias aterradoras.
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Monica Malta, a University of Toronto assistant professor of equity, gender and population, happened to be spearheading a nationwide study of transgender women from all parts of Brazil, from the rural, remote areas of the Amazon to the favelas of Rio De Janeiro, back in 2016 and 2017.
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But the lead-up to this summer's Olympics in Rio is starting to look more grueling than a 3,000 meter steeplechase: The event has been plagued by public health concerns about Zika, delayed construction, and forcible evictions from the favelas near the Olympic sites, all exacerbated by Brazil's deeper economic woes.
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After arriving at the airport, members and assorted apparatchiks were ushered into private cars, ferried along exclusive highway lanes—look out the window, and there were Rio 2016-branded walls to mask the favelas—and dropped off at their exclusive hotels ringed by security, so only those with credentials could enter.
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For all the failures of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the decade leading up to the Games has unintentionally left at least one positive legacy in the host city, particularly in its favelas, where residents like Raull Santiago have a voice in a way they never did before.
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While I won't quote him directly because I used Google Translate to interview him, his message was clear: the violence in Alemão has only increased since the World Cup and Olympics were announced, and the main public investments in the favelas have been the police presence—which have destabilized the community.
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Related: 'Pacified' Favelas Rise Up in Fatal Protests Over Alleged Police Killings Members of Meu Rio say the strategy is designed to both help them get beyond the administrative brick wall in specific cases and combat the tendency of the authorities to treat police misconduct as a matter of individual transgressions.
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Out of the bunch, "Faces Places" stands out for its quirkiness and light, teaming the 35-year-old French artist JR, who slathers outsize photos of everyday folks across favelas, water towers and buildings worldwide, with Agnès Varda, now 89, the filmmaker nicknamed the grandmother of the French new wave.
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For all the failures of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the decade leading up to the Games has unintentionally left at least one positive legacy in the host city, particularly in its favelas, where residents like Raull Santiago have a voice in a way they never did before.
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El ascenso de figuras como Bolsonaro y Witzel es consecuencia de problemas sociales graves, de años de abandono estatal a la situación de las favelas y de la implementación de políticas erradas que optaron por detener la violencia con más violencia y de la apatía de muchos sectores de la sociedad.
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Today, local currencies may be experiencing a resurgence; particularly successful examples include BerkShares, a local currency for the Berkshire region of Massachusetts, and Banco Palmas, Brazil's first community bank, which has led to a network of 52 other community banks that issue their own local currencies in favelas around the country.
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El ascenso de figuras como Bolsonaro y Witzel es consecuencia de problemas sociales graves, de años de abandono estatal a la situación de las favelas y de la implementación de políticas erradas que optaron por detener la violencia con más violencia y de la apatía de muchos sectores de la sociedad.
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In addition to Brazil's economic travails, the rise of figures like President Bolsonaro and Governor Witzel is a consequence of years of state abandonment of the poor in the favelas, followed by self-defeating policies that try to stop violence with more violence, leaving the rest of society to look on in apathy.
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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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En las calles de São Paulo, las apariencias personales y decisiones de cómo vestirse cuentan toda una historia: en esta serie, brasileños no binarios, gays o representantes de favelas le explican a la fotógrafa Gabriela Portilho cómo cada tatuaje, cada pieza de joyería y cada prenda es elegida cuidadosamente para "expresar resistencia".
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Outside the Olympic bubble, gun battles between the police and drug gangs in Complexo do Alemão, a collection of favelas, the poor urban areas that emerged as squatter settlements, were a stubborn reminder of the untamed violence and yawning inequities in a city that officials had promised would be the world's safest during the Games.
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His performances in Rio nightclubs brought him into contact with the poet and diplomat Vinícius de Moraes, and together they began work on Orfeu da Conceição ("Orpheus of the Conception"), an influential stage play that reimagined the Greek character of its namesake in the favelas of Rio at the height of the city's Carnaval festivities.
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"In [favelas] and suburbs, it is not very common to have a visible police presence or for crimes to be investigated than in neighborhoods that have greater purchasing power, such as the South Zone and Barra da Tijuca," said Lidiane Malanquini, coordinator of public security affairs for the non-profit Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré.
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If the organization doesn't think twice about Rio's government tearing down favelas in favor of venues that, ten years from now, will likely be crumbling reminders of one high-profile, three-week period, of course it's going to threaten to sue over something as comparatively insignificant as sharing a 2-second GIF of Katie Ledecky swimming.
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The protest, Xavier said after he was searched by the police, was mainly against the Olympics and the use of police brutality to pacify Rio's favelas in the lead up to the Games, a controversial measure that many there believe has resulted in needless loss of life and the murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of residents.
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Some reporters have left the Olympic venues long enough to show us glimpses of the still-simmering unrest, from the Olympic torch relay, during which protesters lobbed stones and the riot cops retaliated with tear gas and rubber bullets, to the viral photos of children watching the Opening Ceremony's glittering spectacle from their distant perch in the mountainside favelas.
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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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But what saved all this seriousness of purpose was the way Meirelles and Thomas blended those darker themes with more joyous moments, like a mashup of the past several decades of Brazilian pop, or a gorgeous cross section of a cityscape that called to mind the city's favelas, but in a way that allowed for much more dancing than you might expect.
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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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Pointing to the ceremony's honoring of Brazil's achievements as a racially diverse nation and its call for action to combat global warming, Fernando Meirelles, the director of "City of God" — about Rio's favelas, the gritty urban areas that largely formed as squatter settlements — and one of the event's creative directors, proudly proclaimed that it would rankle conservative figures at home and abroad.
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These public, usually free events aren't limited to one place, or time: Nearly every night of the week in Rio, a roda can be found, whether it's in the city's wealthier Zona Sul ("South Zone"), its often overlooked and crime-ridden Zona Norte ("North Zone"), and Zona Oeste ("West Zone"), or the favelas, the low-income hillside communities scattered in between.
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The film, which opens in theaters on May 18, follows Pope Francis from prisons, refugee camps and favelas to the halls of Congress and the United Nations without losing its stringent focus on a pontiff seeking to model himself on his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, the son of a rich textile merchant who cast off his finery for mendicants' robes.
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Because his art is centered on portraiture and involves wheat-pasting oversize prints on building exteriors — the faces of women in Rio's favelas splashed across their homes, or disembodied eyes in Havana, Istanbul and Los Angeles — JR is usually categorized as a photographer or a street artist, but neither really gets at his abiding interest, which is people, and connecting them.
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So I think it's a win win situation and I guess the power of chefs I'm so happy because you know 10 years ago it was very hard to partner with Chefs I was like what crazy Chef whom you know is going to the Favelas and all the chefs getting all the awards and everything and at some point now when you have Massimo??
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The films include Christine in the Cutting Room, a combined performance and film event, Tranny Fag, which follows the life of Linn da Quebrada, a Black, Brazilian trans woman whose performances combine rap, dance, singing, and poetry, all to amplify the voices of marginalized communities in Brazil's favelas, and The Killing of Sister George, a drama about a lesbian actress in a love triangle that became a cult classic.
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The contradictions that he exposes following his two days of "wanderings" through some of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro should alarm every one of us as much as it inspired him to expose the truth that the Olympic spirit warms only those who have enough to eat, a habitable home, and a neighborhood where children may run as freely as the world-class athletes who are competing just a few miles away.
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Dying Gasp of One Local Newspaper America's Next Top Pool Float The Long and Surprising History of Roller Derby Anatomy Of A Scene | How Thor Transforms in 'Avengers: Endgame' Meet the 'Orchestra of the Street' Bringing Classical Music to Rio's Favelas A History of Blue Note Records in 15 Albums When Entering the U.S. Was as Easy as Crossing a Street The Playlist: The Unstoppable 'Old Town Road,' and 11 More New Songs When Lawmakers Try to Ban Assault Weapons, Gunmakers Adapt How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not The Book Review Podcast | Fiction About Unprecedented Situations Tap Acrobatics in 'The Black Clown' Are You Rich?
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Trash (Image: Getty)Trash, a bit bigger (Image: Getty)The trash-filled interior of the Marancã stadium (Image: AP)Tapestries created by local artist Adriano Varejão hang in tatters outside of the Olympic Aquatic stadium (Image: AP) Aerial photo of the Maracanã stadium shows dead grass and filthy seats (Image: AP)Some of the seats at the Maracanã stadium have been ripped from the stands and piled in a heap (Image: AP)Not even the fancy players' seats remain fully intact at the Maracanã stadium (Image: AP)A one-day volleyball competition was recently held at the Olympic tennis center (Image: AP)The former site of the Olympic media center has now been deemed a health hazard (Image: Getty)Thieves have harvested the wiring for valuable copper at some stadiums (Image: AP)A closer look at the sad grass of the Maracanã stadium (Image: AP)A closer look at the sad chairs of Maracanã stadium (Image: AP)A closer look at the sad Olympic rings outside of Maracanã stadium (Image: AP) Some children use an Olympic monument as a playground (Image: AP)Even still, the situation in Rio's favelas is much, much worse (Image: Getty)
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