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Numa favela pacificada, como uma UPP Social começa a trabalhar?

How does the social UPP program begin its work in a pacified favela? [click for English] Ocupação há cinco meses Morro do Borel, 28 de outubro de 2010. Cinco meses após a chegada da UPP nesta área de sete favelas. … Continue reading

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How does the social UPP program begin its work in a pacified favela?

Morro do Borel, October 28, 2010: five months have gone by since the state military police occupied and pacified this area comprising seven favelas. The Borel occupation is part of the UPP program that has now “retaken” 12 territories of … Continue reading

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Free at last: the Borel favelas, home to 35,000

Lenita de Sousa Vilela is the principal of the Antoine Margarinos Torres elementary school, which serves 500 children ages 4-11. Five months ago, 300 military police recruits occupied the  Borel area, in Tijuca, north zone. There is still drug trafficking, but … Continue reading

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Peace and the police/ Paz e a polícia

“Police reform is happening by way of the UPPs.” –Sílvia Ramos, undersecretary for integrated action in the territory, state UPP social program O Globo reports that Rio’s police are killing fewer people: shooting deaths in police self-defense in August 2010 … Continue reading

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O que é isso? Helicópteros e sirenes não detêm crime

A polícia carioca já ocupou e “pacificou” um número impressionante de 13 favelas desde o fim de 2008. Também já começou a atentar para as milícias que extorquem moradores de bairros pobres onde traficantes de drogas estão ausentes. E o … Continue reading

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What is going on? Sirens and helicopters not effective enough to stem crime

  Rio’s police have successfully occupied and “pacified” 13 favelas since late 2008. They’ve also begun to turn their attention to the extortionist paramilitary groups prevalent in poor neighborhoods where drug traffickers are absent. And the state is moving fast … Continue reading

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Afternoon Delight in UPP territory: a way to value favela history

O Globo reported today on a new Rio state government program to fund late-afternoon street shows that draw on local memory, in occupied favelas this summer. Dubbed O Verão das UPPs, or Summer in the UPPs, the program has funds … Continue reading

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Deu no New York Times / It was in the Times

Uma visita à UPP na Cidade de Deus, relatada no jornal norteamericano, junto com uma entrevista com o Secretário Estadual de Segurança Pública, José Mariano Beltrame, se encontra aqui: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/world/americas/11brazil.html?_r=1&sq=rio%20de%20janeiro%20upp&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all O secretário falou ao NYT que as UPPs são formalmente … Continue reading

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“If [the social UPP] doesn’t work,the blame will all be ours”

From Social UPP coordinator Sílvia Ramos, in the Estado de São Paulo newspaper: “It’s easier than I thought. I’m finding that it’s possible to be criticial from within the government. We have all the support we need. There’s money, priority, … Continue reading

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A new republic

Social UPP secretary: “Not makeup”, “not salvationist”; “just the integration of the city” Rio de Janeiro State Social Aid and Human Rights Secretary Ricardo Henriques spends a lot of time explaining the UPP Social – especially the fact that until … Continue reading

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