As part of its cleanup for the World Cup, in 2008 the Brazilian government began a police crackdown to sweep criminals out of the urban slums known as "favelas." The government has boasted of its ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post The barber Adauto gives a sharp razor line like that of the soccer star Gabriel Jesus to Bernardo in the favela Vidigal ...
Last Friday, Brazilian soccer legend Pelé and Hublot CEO Ricardo Guadalupe joined a group of local children in Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho favela to celebrate a new soccer pitch donated by Hublot, ...
Young women in Rio favela hope to overcome poverty and violence to play in Women's World Cup in 2027
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- The bar is easy to miss. It is compact and narrow and it sits on a crooked favela street with no sidewalks and many worn storefronts. It appears to be tucked inside the hillside. Its ...
A group of girls and young women gathered early Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro’s working-class Manguinhos neighborhood to watch the Brazilian team compete in the Women’s World Cup and pray for a win in ...
You wore the wrong shoes. Climbing up and down the narrow, wet and steep walkway that connects the many parts of Rocinha -- Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela -- requires a sure grip, not the wood-sole ...
SAO PAULO (AP) Four years ago teenager Gabriel Jesus was painting the streets of Jardim Peri, a favela on the northern edge of Sao Paulo where crime is rife and fetid creeks flow past children playing ...
A group of girls and young women gathered early Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro’s working-class Manguinhos neighborhood to watch the Brazilian team compete in the Women’s World Cup and pray for a win in ...
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