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Dancing With the Devil in the City of God: Rio De Janeiro on the Brink

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by Juliana Barbassa


  United Nations’ Sustainable Development Conference, 176

  United States

  Brazilian tourists in, 79–80

  economic downturn in, xv, 74, 75, 79, 80, 236

  immigration to, 92–94

  oil production in, 235

  Olympic bid of, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii

  tax burden in, 91

  University of California, Berkeley, 28

  UPPs. See Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora

  Urban Age Award, 224n1

  Urban renewal, 172, 173, 201

  Uruguaiana 24 (brothel), 172

  Uruguay, 253, 254–55

  Valcke, Jérôme, 267, 272

  Vanessa’s Bar, 177–78

  Ventura, Zuenir, 21n3

  Vicente de Carvalho, 44

  Vidigal, 4, 23

  Vietnam: Inside Story of the Guerilla War (Burchett), 18n2

  Vigilantism, 264–65

  Vila Autódromo, 218, 219–29

  alternative to removal presented, 224

  history of, 220

  mayor’s meeting with residents, 224–27

  official justifications for removal plan, 221, 223, 224

  proposed compensation for residents, 224

  proposed resettlement of residents, 222–23, 224

  real estate values in, 220, 221

  tenuous victory of residents, 226–29

  Vila Cândido, 139–40

  Vila Cruzeiro, 29, 44

  aftermath of police raid, 57–59

  police raid on, 45–56

  population of, 58

  as a redoubt of Red Command, 45

  Vila Mimosa, 174–76, 179

  Vila Pan-Americana (Vila do Pan), 152–53, 222

  Vila União de Curicica, 216

  Violence, 115. See also Crime against the LGBT population, 168, 169, 184, 185–86

  police, 260–62

  against women, 169, 181–82

  Vitoriano, Carlos Henrique Matias, 35

  Vultures, 118, 119, 123

  Wall Street Journal, xxii

  Washington, Lorna, 193

  Waste Land (documentary), 120

  Waste management, 117–23

  Water pollution, 128–29, 130–44, 259

  construction and, 158–60

  health problems caused by, 134, 135, 160

  historical regulation of, 131–32

  illegal water connections and, 134–35, 139, 143

  outlook for reducing, 142–44

  sewage treatment plants and, 130, 134, 143–44

  untreated waste and, 133

  West side, 147–50, 158–59, 219

  Whales, 4, 142

  Widow’s Hill, 127

  Wild West bonus, 27–28, 39

  Willian (soccer player), 275

  Winfrey, Oprah, xv

  Woman Ironing (Picasso), 120

  Women, 169, 180–82

  Workers’ Party, xvii, 77, 185–86, 242

  World Cup, xxii, 10, 15, 59, 81, 228, 232, 250–59, 266–82

  attempts to avert problems, 267–68

  Brazil’s defeat (1950), 254–55

  Brazil’s defeat (2014), 278–81

  Brazil selected as host for, 37

  Brazil’s trophies from, 251

  burdens placed by, 252

  as the Copa das Copas, 277

  expenditures on, 280

  favela removal program and, 199–201, 210, 215, 217–18

  the games, 269–81

  imagina na Copa! (punch line), 233, 257

  international acclaim from, 251

  national advertising campaign for, 268–69

  of 1950, 252–55

  prostitution crackdown prior to, 170, 177, 179

  protests during feared, 233, 243, 267–68

  Red Command threat to, 44

  rocky path to, 256–59, 266–69

  World Health Organization, 125

  World Heritage Site (Rio as), 116

  World Military Games, 144

  Yellow fever, 134

  Zapatero, José Luis, xviii

  Zé Bigode. See Saldanha, José Jorge

  Zé do Carmo. See Santos, José do Carmo dos

  Zero Hunger, 78

  Zezé. See Maria José

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  Dancing with the devil in the city of God : Rio de Janeiro on the brink / Juliana Barbassa.

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  1. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)—Social life and customs. 2. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)—Social conditions. 3. City and town life—Brazil—Rio de Janeiro. 4. Social change—Brazil—Rio de Janeiro. 5. Social problems—Brazil—Rio de Janeiro. 6. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)—Description and travel. 7. Barbassa, Juliana—Travel—Brazil—Rio de Janeiro. 8. Economic development—Brazil—Rio de Janeiro. 9. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)—Economic conditions. I. Title.

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