Favelas

Inside Rio’s favelas, the city's neglected neighborhoods. Twenty-five percent of the residents of Rio de Janeiro live in informal communities called favelas. Not fully slums but not fully integrated into the city either, these favelas are home to both horrific gang violence and some of the most creative and resourceful people in Rio. Video by Vox

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