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Officials in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area are increasingly complaining that the so-called “pacification” of favelas is displacing violence to the city’s periphery. The hard evidence for this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police patrol a street in Rio de Janeiro during a large-scale operation in the Alemao favelas and the Penha district in the north ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Policemen patrol the Pavao-Pavaozinho slum after a shootout during a police operation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 10, 2016.

This file photo from January 19, 2022, shows members of Brazil’s Civil Police taking part in a crackdown on drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho slum district, one of two favelas targeted ...