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...built as well Villa Alliancia, Villa Esperanca (which means hope), and Villa Kennedy, for about 40 thousand individuals. This was a housing development plan on the outskirts of the city for former slum area inhabitants. So we practically cleared about 19 favellas (slums) out of this plan...

Author: By William Woodward, | Title: Latin America: Politics and Social Change | 1/11/1967 | See Source »

Half a dozen other major projects are under way, from the Boa Esperanca Dam to three new dams in the frontier state of Mato Grosso. Brazilians dream of harnessing the raging Parana River, creating a complex twelve times as big as Egypt's Aswan Dam. The Parana's potential: 25 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Turning on the Power | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...which every Occidental must bear." The province of East Africa to which he goes is,the property of a company which exploits, in true conquistador style, the huge, rich, deadly land and its enslaved natives. The few European settlers stick close to the seacoast, to the unthriving port of Esperanca, cyclone-destroyed every seven years. Or they work and drink themselves deathward on scattered plantations. In the unmapped interior roam man-eating lions, hostile natives, rumors of an unkillable rebel chief. The Governor, aptly nicknamed the Scorpion, is a polished gentleman grown old in disease and expedient wickedness. He welcomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inward | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

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