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RIO DE JANEIRO — The home Jose Nazare Braga built in the Rocinha shantytown is his life's work, an investment that grew from a shack to a three-story building over 30 years. A restaurant and a paper-goods store on the ground floor provide ...
May 24, 2012 at 04:38 | Source: Huffington Post
The city will also host the 2016 Olympics. In 2009, the authorities in charge of the city and the state of Rio de Janeiro launched their programme of "pacification" of the city's favelas. Police officers, backed up by army troops and tanks, moved into the ...
May 28, 2012 at 00:37 | Source: BBC News
In the past, some favelas in Rio de Janeiro were dominated by drug dealers. But after a police crackdown in 2008 a different picture is emerging. There seems to be a boom of bars and restaurants attracting local clients and even tourists.
May 15, 2012 at 20:55 | Source: BBC News
Police and military officers installed themselves in the complex of favelas over a year ago to try and pacify the area ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Rio de Janeiro's authorities have been promoting these kind of sporting activities to ...
May 28, 2012 at 09:48 | Source: ITN
The piece is a follow-up to work Koolhaas and Urhahn (who together go by the name Haas and Hahn) have been doing for years in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where they have transformed entire neighborhoods with rainbow-colored murals.
May 21, 2012 at 20:55 | Source: New York Times Blogs
Diego Brandao, 24, lives in Albuquerque, separated by almost 4,000 miles from his hometown of Manaus, Brazil. Yet, the favelas of Manaus have left an indelible mark on the mixed-martial arts fighter – a fire not extinguished. UFC 146 ...
May 23, 2012 at 05:57 | Source: ABQJournal
In Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slums – or favelas – many of which were recently invaded by paramilitary police to drive out gangs of drug traffickers, there is one thing everyone complains about: the high rents. In Santa Marta, for instance, it now ...
May 16, 2012 at 16:43 | Source: Financial Times
Research at the University of Leicester will analyse the growth in tours of areas of urban poverty, often called slums, favelas or townships. The project is funded by the European Union through a prestigious Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship awarded to ...
May 22, 2012 at 12:32 | Source: EurekAlert
A push to control violence before the 2016 Olympics has seen permanent police posts installed in some of the favelas once controlled by the drug trade. Thanks to such improvements, communities that began as informal settlements are starting to feel more ...
May 27, 2012 at 04:55 | Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For later generations, escaping the widespread poverty of the northeast customarily meant moving to livelier southeastern cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, though many migrants still ended up living in favelas, or slums. Today, an economic boom has ...
May 24, 2012 at 07:15 | Source: Los Angeles Times