Tag: Favelas

• Friday, December 10th 2010 - 02:15 UTC

  Infrastructure loan to improve living conditions in Rio do Janeiro’s favelas

  

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second biggest city will receive a 150 million US dollars loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to improve living conditions in low-income neighborhoods, known as favelas.

• Wednesday, December 1st 2010 - 22:14 UTC

  Lula da Silva’s 8 years marked by corruption and crime, says a Wikileak cable

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva concludes his eight years in office with a performance marked by open corruption “among his closest political allies”, with a “plague” of vote-buying in Congress and the ruling party, and without having given a reply to the issue of crime.

• Monday, November 29th 2010 - 04:53 UTC

  Brazilian forces expel criminal gangs from favels; promise to stay

  

  Public Security Secretary Jose Mariano Beltrame described the police raid on the Alemao Complex, known as “heart of the evil,” as a success. The criminals lost not only their territory, but also a huge amount of weapons, drugs, vehicles and other possessions, he said.

• Friday, November 26th 2010 - 15:04 UTC

  Rio’s favelas war has full support and logistics from the federal government

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva promised full support from the federal government to Rio de Janeiro authorities involved in a clean-up operation to free the city’s shanty towns, favelas, from drug traffickers and organized crime.

• Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 20:44 UTC

  “Favelas’ war” rages in Rio do Janeiro for fifth day running: 30 dead

  

  Armoured personnel carriers from the Brazilian navy rolled through smoke-filled streets in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday as police battled (favelas) slum-based drug gangs for a fifth consecutive day leaving at least 30 dead and almost 200 arrested.