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Brazil: Questions Surrounding Rio's ‘Pacifying Police' Units
globalvoicesonline.org 1 day, 3 hours agoThis post is part of our special coverage International Relations & Security . The 18th Rio UPP was launched in November 2011 in the Mangueira neighborhood which has 20,000 inhabitants. Image by SEASDH on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). In recent years, the state government of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has adopted a security policy based on the installation of Pacifying Police Units (Unidades de Polícia Pacificadoras), known as UPPs. The aim of the UPP strategy [pt] is to place permanent police units in favelas (sh
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Rio Issues Land Titles To Slum Residents
yahoo.com 1 week, 1 day agoThe home Jose Nazare Braga built in the Rocinha shantytown is his life's work, an investment that grew from a shack to a three-story building over 30 years. A restaurant and a paper-goods store on the ground floor provide income, and his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren live above.










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