favela

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She was very informative and keen on sending the right message to the outside world about what a favela is all about.

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  • Babylon: a grand name, but the favela was nothing but a dismal scattering of tin-and-breezeblock shacks and abandoned cars lining the road that led up the mountainside, terminating behind an old Catholic shrine. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#1
  • The favela was the setting for an award-winning documentary about cocaine by the British film-maker Angus Macqueen, as well as a —  Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • In the following decades, more brands and businesses moved over from Rio to Sao Paulo, hotels took over vacant lots, and the favela was razed to make way for more office buildings. —  CNN.com
  • She was very informative and keen on sending the right message to the outside world about what a favela is all about. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • "The city doesn't accept the favela -- there's enormous separation, forgetting and ignoring of favelas," said Dulce Pandolfi, a historian at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, who voiced concern that Glaser could spark "false illusions" for Vidigal residents.
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  1. Portuguese, possibly from diminutive of favo, honeycomb (from Latin favus) or from favelas (probably from pl. of favela, spurge, from fava, bean, from Latin faba; see bha-bhā- in Indo-European roots).
 

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