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Shooting citywide, armed forces in Rocinha: what’s going on?

Worse than you can imagine UPP failure a result of questionable management Unlike housing, health and education, public safety is a service that doesn’t lend itself to different approaches, one for the rich, one for the poor. Para português, clique … Continue reading

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Is Rio ready for the World Cup?

The hole may be much further down, as we say in Portuguese The foreign press visit this week to the Rio state public safety Integrated Command and Control Center (CICC is the Portuguese acronym) was one of what promises to … Continue reading

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Rio protests, Pope, politics, police…. and pacification?

P words Recently a community leader critical of the UPP in his favela told me he’d been to a debate at PUC and was impressed by the students’ opposition to the UPPs. “They’re right,” he said, “but I saw that … Continue reading

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