Favelas: Brazil’s New Consumerism Booms from the Bottom

RIO DE JANEIRO – Few outsiders come to this favela (slum) in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone, populated largely with recent migrants from Brazil’s traditionally depressed northeast region and controlled for years by anti-drug trafficker paramilitaries that made the favela the thinly-veiled subject of the recent blockbuster “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within.” Tucked behind a […]