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  • The teleférico (air tramway) is coming to Rocinha, a benefit or burden?

    This piece is based on participant observation (mainly in Rocinha), authorized recorded interviews, literature reviews, etc.… No names or compromising details will be disclosed. Well, it is official, the teleférico (air tramway) is coming to Rocinha very soon, at least the work will begin soon. Actually it has been official for some time now, but…

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  • Urbanização Responsável com 100% Saneamento e Cidadania

    A Rocinha desde sua existência enfrenta problemas como queda de encostas, enchentes na parte baixa, e por conseqüência bairros vizinhos sofrem com a falta de canalização correta do esgoto e drenagem pluvial decorrente do abandono pelo poder público, que até início dos anos oitenta consentia apenas a entrada da repressão através da polícia. Em determinado…

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  • The Real World – O Mundo Real

    Mundo Real is currently facing increased demands and challenges of the real world – work, school, family, and simply life itself, has made it impossible for us to continue to update our website. We are still active in Rocinha and elsewhere, but we do not have time to maintain our website. We hope that we…

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  • Corruption and the paradox of the UPP in Rocinha and Rio de Janeiro

    On Monday, March 26, 2012 the president of one of Rocinha’s three residents associations (AMABB) was shot and killed. Vanderlan Barros de Oliveira, known as Feijão, walked a short distance out of the association’s headquarters when he was shot at five times in broad day light by a man on a motorcycle wearing a helmet.…

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  • Favela Pacified – BBC podcast

    There’s an ambitious government programme underway in one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slums, or favelas. The aim is to clear Rocinha – home to over 100,000 people – of the drugs gangs that have dominated there for decades. The strategy, known as ‘pacification’, begins with a raid by Brazilian elite forces to drive out…

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  • Decree signed by Rio’s Mayor on Forced Eviction Procedures

    On February 7th eleven residents of Laboriaux participated in an important meeting/reading with Dr. Francisco Horta Filho to study the Municipal DECREE (DECRETO) N°34522, published on the 3rd of OCTOBER of 2011. Francisco Horta Filho is the new coordenador of the Núcleo de Terras e Habitação (Nuth), or the Nucleus for Land and Housing, of the Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio…

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  • Well known Community Leader/Politician in Rocinha Arrested

    On Friday December 2, 2011 a pivotal event occurred in Rocinha — a well known ‘community leader/politician’ was arrested for associating with drug traffickers. Anyone who watches the news in Brazil and especially Rio de Janeiro knows who we are referring to. The point of this posting is not to go into details about this…

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