Favela Archipelago
Brazil’s impoverished, informal urban neighborhoods are the result of long-term rural neglect.
In 1897, the Brazilian army mobilized to crush Canudos, a utopian community founded by a millenarian preacher in the country’s remote northeast, near Monte Favela. The soldiers had been promised land for their service. But no reward awaited them when they returned to Rio de Janeiro, so they settled on a hillside, first in tents […]
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