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Residents of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, arrive early and queue to cast their vote ahead of polls opening in the presidential election second round, choosing between wildly different visions of their future offered by incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and his rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. IMAGES
Brazilian former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva marches alongside supporters in Rio's Complexo do Alemão favela as part of his second round campaign against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. IMAGES
Residents of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, vote in a polarising presidential election, with leftist front-runner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva facing far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. IMAGES TO COMPLETE 32KK3FL
Lima, Jun 29 (EFE).- (Camera: Mikhail Huacán) On a hill adjacent to the sacred land of Morro Solar, located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, rests a colossal acrylic Christ, a gift from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.A symbol of the dream of former Peruvian president Alan García for Lima, but also of the corruption behind it, which has led to its nickname Christ of "the Stolen".FOOTAGE OF THE STATUE.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), May 7 (EFE).- (Camera: Janaína Quinet) Residents of the Jacarezinho favela have accused Civil Police in the Brazilian state Rio de Janeiro of carrying out a “massacre” during a raid on the settlement that left 24 suspects and one police officer dead. “This was not an intelligence operation, it was a total massacre that forms part of the genocide underway in our country, and especially in our state,” Giovanna Almeida, a 22-year-old student, told Efe during a protest outside the Civil Police station. FOOTAGE OF A PROTEST IN FRON OD THE CIVIL POLICE FACILITIES IN RIO DE JANEIRO.SOUNDBITES AND TRANSLATIONS OF:MILENA SANTOS:"As a Carioca, woman, young, black and favela resident, my feeling is of repudiation, of sadness. It was the lives of 25 young people. Suspicious or not, people do not have to be murdered. These are crimes, it is state violence.""People died sitting down, they died inside houses. The images show the truth and from the direction of the blood you can see there was no exchange of shots. It was an execution, it was murder."GIOVANA ALMEIDA:“This was not an intelligence operation, it was a total massacre that forms part of the genocide underway in our country, and especially in our state.”
São Paulo, Nov 28 (EFE).- At just 17, Wallace Martins is already an emerging figure on the racing circuits of Brazil, a calling he strives to finance in any which way he can given his humble background. He has already been dubbed the ‘Hamilton of the favela.’One of his living room walls is stacked with trophies, on the other, there is a racing kart.The young racer from the northern outskirts of Sao Paulo is set on overcoming the chronic inequality in Brazil, a country that has produced Formula One giants like Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, one of Wallace’s idols along with British driver Lewis Hamilton.(Camera: WALLACE CARVALHO. Editor: VICTORIA MORENO)
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