Rio de Janeiro is the city with the biggest percentage of people living in shanty towns in Brazil - 22%. It's a population of 1,3 million, 70% of which are black. Police operations targeting ...

Causes of urban growth Land use in LEDCs Characteristics of shanty town areas Case study: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Rocinha The rapid growth of shanty towns Reasons for migration to Rio de Janeiro ...

The Brazilian Federal Police announced that beginning December an unmanned “spy” aircraft will over-fly the shanty towns of Rio do Janeiro at a height of 7.000 metres, well out of range from ...

Before you jet off to the samba-fuelled nightlife and powdery white-sand beaches of Rio de Janeiro ... here — otherwise known ...

Tens of thousands of people in Rio de Janeiro and other cities across ... one of Rio's most violent shanty towns "I'm here at the request of President Temer," he said at a press conference.

Until recently, the most high-profile conflict in Rio de Janeiro's favelas has been ... find it listed in most guidebooks. The hillside shanty town was dominated by drug traffickers and widely ...

A battalion of Special Forces (BOPE) from the Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro started using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones to air monitor the drugs trade and gangs in shanty towns ...