Word: favela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 25,000 packing Rio's Maracanazinho Stadium included favela dwellers and members of Brazil's lower middle class, their swarthy faces reflecting their country's racial mix. Decorously dressed in black suits and flowered dresses, they were moved by evangelical zeal: when a 2,000-voice choir began to sing, everyone joined in. Afterward, a trickle of shouted individual prayers grew into a waterfall roar. Last week's rally, at the Eighth Pentecostal World Conference, eloquently illustrated the power and missionary success of one of the century's fastest-growing religious movements...
...Voodoo god of iron, has been named godfather. The priest is puzzled by the throng crowding his church for the baptism, but it goes off well since everyone knows that "Catholicism and Voodoo blend with and understand one another." The final theme describes how the people of a new favela stave off the combined power of the city, state and police...
...collections, chopped subsidies, tightened credit, slowed down the currency printing presses. For all his efforts, living costs under his regime have soared no less than 117%, and he himself has had to double the official minimum wage level. Last week bus fares in Rio rose 40%, and hordes of favela dwellers began getting up hours early to walk to work. Since Castello Branco took over, the price of meat has gone up from 400 cruzeiros per kilo to 1,900, black beans from 180 to 950, rice from 100 to 560. Hardest to take of all, many Brazilians of late...
Hurt worst were the favelas, the shantytowns that house one-quarter of Rio's 4,000,000 inhabitants. Many of the favelas cling precariously to steep hills. As the rains loosened the soil, the shacks slid dizzily down. Many favela dwellers escaped; others failed to get out soon enough. Slum dwellers in the low-lying northern suburb fared little better: the entire area was flooded...
...funeral drew the high and mighty. But Perpétuo belonged to the favelados, and 5,000 of them turned out to march in the procession, and crowd around his coffin for a last look, or touch, or tear. After the burial, leaders of the "Skeleton" favela solemnly met to discuss changing the name to "Perpétuo" favela. "He would have liked that," was the explanation...