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Veja magazine interview with Rio’s military police commander

Veja’s “yellow pages” interview Sept. 15 with colonel Mário Sérgio Duarte, available in Portuguese online by way of the Acervo Digital icon at the top of the magazine’s home page, portrays a man determined to transform Rio’s main police force, … Continue reading

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Next year in Rocinha/ Ano que vem na Rocinha [UPDATED]

Anselmo Gois noticiou em sua coluna que mil recém treinados recrutas da polícia militar irão ocupar e pacificar a Rocinha em janeiro 2011. Para ler o principal do que segue em português, clique nos links embutidos ou leia o Anselmo aqui. No … Continue reading

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Ugly Ducklings

A new image Excluded and excoriated for years, Rio’s hilltop favelas –the pacified ones, especially– will now vie with Sugarloaf and the Corcovado for tourists’ attention. With this in mind, Sebrae, a non-profit agency funded by federally-mandated payroll deductions and dedicated … Continue reading

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Rio’s many-armed police: a chance to work together, at last

Off the hook? One of Brazil’s biggest problems is too much division of labor, so it’s heartening to read in today’s O Globo that in Rio, eight agencies and three levels of government will be brought together in a new … Continue reading

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A way back? / um retorno?

Renatinho, ex-soldier / Renatinho, ex-soldado Click on the link below to read (in Portuguese) the story of Renatinho, a soldier in the Andaraí favela drug traffic until July, when the area was “pacified”. The bigshots left the area, but young … Continue reading

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UPP social: a segurança é apenas o começo / The social UPP: public safety is just the beginning

What a tangled web exclusion weaves… “Expanding the freedoms that we have reason to value not only makes our lives richer and more unfettered, but also allows us to be fuller social persons, exercising our own volitions and interacting with– … Continue reading

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