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A favela is featured in the Call of Duty franchise in the 2009 game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It appears in the missions "Takedown" and "The Hornet's Nest" as well as a multiplayer map; the map reappears in the 2014 "Invasion" DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts.
Rocinha. Rocinha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁɔˈsĩɲɐ], little farm) is a favela in Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro 's South Zone between the districts of São Conrado and Gávea. Rocinha is built on a steep hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, and is located about one kilometre from a nearby beach. Most of the favela is on a very steep ...
Rio de Janeiro (for a complete list, see the Portuguese WikiPedia article: Lista de favelas da cidade do Rio de Janeiro) Babilônia. Benjamin Constant. Cajueiro. Cantagalo–Pavão–Pavãozinho. Chácara do Céu. Chapéu Mangueira. Cidade de Deus. Complexo do Lins.
In literature and film. Known in English as City of God, Cidade de Deus is the eponymous name of a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Paulo Lins, about three young men and their lives of petty crime during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the favela where Lins grew up. An English translation by Alison Entrekin was published in 2006.
The armed conflict for control of the favelas in Greater Rio de Janeiro or simply Civil conflict for control of the favelas is an ongoing conflict between Brazilian militias, organized criminal groups Comando Vermelho, Amigos dos Amigos, Terceiro Comando Puro and the Brazilian state. According to law student Carlos Gilberto Martins Junior ...
Complexo do Alemão. Gondola lift leaving the Estação da Baiana (Baiana Station) within the Complexo do Alemão; which was used by local residents and tourists prior to its closure. Complexo do Alemão (Portuguese: [kõˈplɛksu dwɐleˈmɐ̃w], German's Complex) is a group of favelas (low-income historically informal neighborhoods) in the ...
Social apartheid is tied to the exclusion of poor youth (particularly street youth) from Brazilian society. [13] Some political theorists assert the role of the police in keeping the inhabitants of Brazil's many favelas from encroaching on the lives of middle- and upper-class Brazilians is key to maintaining this state of apartheid.
Heliópolis. Coordinates: 23°36′38″S 46°35′33″W. Housing estates in the neighbourhood, seen in São Caetano do Sul. Heliópolis is a favela in the Sacomã district of São Paulo. It has around 200,000 inhabitants and has developed into a serviced neighbourhood from its beginnings as a squatted settlement in the 1970s.