Officials in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area are increasingly complaining that the so-called “pacification” of favelas is displacing violence to the city’s periphery. The hard evidence for this ...
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Rio de Janeiro’s mayor has announced new funding and a new name for a program meant to complement the city’s police “pacification” with increased social services, but it will take more than a facelift ...
Rio de Janeiro has engaged in an ambitious security operation aimed at freeing its favelas from the control of gangs in time for the 2016 Olympics. But security is not the only rationale behind the ...
Brazilian police are preparing to occupy one of the deadliest shantytown complexes in Rio de Janeiro, hoping to drive out drug gangs ahead of next year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. It's the ...
“It’s better to say comunidade,” Tricia corrects us. She is tasteful and perky, a government employee who could star in a fitness video. “The community was pacified in 2010,” she says. Outside the ...
On a Saturday morning, in a group of Rio de Janeiro's notoriously violent shanty towns, or favelas, heavily armed pacification police stand on one side of the street, on the other side, protestors ...
On a Saturday morning, in a group of Rio de Janeiro's notoriously violent shanty towns, or favelas, heavily armed pacification police stand on one side of the street, on the other side, protestors ...
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