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  2. Favela - Wikipedia

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    Recently, favelas have been featured in multiple forms of media including movies and video games. The media representation of favelas has increased peoples' interest in favelas as tourist locations. [29] Panoramic view of Rio's Rocinha favela. Visible in the distance is the South Atlantic Ocean.

  3. Squatting in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    In Recife, the state capital of Pernambuco in the northeast of the country, 193 favelas were listed in 1985 and half of the entire population of the city was squatting. [2]: 32 In São Paulo, until 1972 favelas were usually demolished then afterwards they were permitted, meaning that in the next decade the number of squatters rose to one million.

  4. Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

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    Favela is a sequel to The Myth of Marginality (1976) as Perlman attempts to retrace the steps she took while living among favela residents between 1968 and 1969. She relates developments in Rio de Janeiro including the loteamentos, a vast community of squatter plots on the western outskirts of the city; and the conjuntos, characterized as cement apartment complexes built by the government to ...

  5. Armed conflict for control of the favelas - Wikipedia

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    Organized crime is intrinsically intertwined with Greater Rio de Janeiro's history, growing with the development of the cities zones and their favelas.Rio de Janeiro is unique in that it has some of its wealthiest, tourist-driven communities located nearby neighborhoods that face high proportions of violence and criminal presence.

  6. Social issues in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Along with the problem of poverty, Brazil is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, according to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) of Brazil. Brazil has 0.539 by the Gini index, based on 2018 data. It is among the ten most unequal countries in the world, being the only Latin American in the list where Africans appear.

  7. 2010 Rio de Janeiro security crisis - Wikipedia

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    In November 2010, there was a major security crisis in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and some of its neighboring cities. The city's criminal drug trafficking factions initiated a series of attacks in response to the government placing permanent police forces [4] into Rio's slums.

  8. Why are people crossing the English Channel and how dangerous ...

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    Many want to pursue a better life and feel a connection to Britain, whether through knowledge of the English language and culture or because they have family and friends living in the UK.

  9. Prostitution in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    There the women celebrated the Jewish festivals, although there was no liturgy for women at the time. The pimps were important sponsors of the Jewish theater. At the premieres, Polacas, luxuriously dressed, sat in the front rows and were presented to the potential clientele. The Second World War ended this trafficking of