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Hard Times in the Marvelous City - From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro (Paperback)
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Hard Times in the Marvelous City - From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro (Paperback)
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Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de
Janeiro challenged the conditions--such as limited access to
security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment--that
separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists
built a movement that helped to push the nation toward
redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort
to institute an ambitious slate of municipal reforms. Those
measures ultimately fell short of aspirations, and soon the
reformers were struggling to hold together a fraying coalition. Rio
was bankrupted by natural disasters and hyperinflation and ravaged
by drug wars. Well-armed drug traffickers had become the new lords
of the favelas, protecting their turf through violence and
patronage. By the early 1990s, the promise of the favela residents'
mobilization of the late 1970s and early 1980s seemed out of reach.
Yet the aspirations that fueled that mobilization have endured, and
its legacy continues to shape favela politics in Rio de Janeiro.
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