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Do tourists solve problems in shantytowns?

Brazil is to build guesthouses for tourists in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s biggest shantytown notorious for its drugs and violence.

The guesthouses form part of a BRL 60 million redevelopment plan which aims to improve the living conditions in Rocinha.

20 January, 2007 by Anni Poulsen - comment

View of a Local in São Paulo, Brazil

Tony Galvez

Lexicographer Tony Galvez gives us a very frank insight into his adopted home town São Paulo in this fourth interview of our View of a Local series.

1 November, 2006 by Anni Poulsen - comment

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