Tag: Operação Saturação

By Anna Fitzpatrick, Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – With the eyes of the world on Rocinha for the past week, many in Brazil are now also looking at what's going on in the favela communities in the country’s biggest...

By Anna Fitzpatrick, Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - Perhaps because of the international success of the Brazilian film "City of God", for many the word favela is synonymous Rio de Janeiro, more so than São Paulo. But Brazil's largest city struggles...