Word: favela
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Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot, an empty oil can on her head. To buy bread and rice, she scavenged scrap paper, selling it to a junkman and getting as much as 30? "on good days." But Carolina's nights, in recent years, were quite untainted by the brawling and raw sex that surrounded her. By kerosene lamp in her 4-ft. by 12-ft. shack...
...years ago, when a playground was being inaugurated, favela adults chased children off the new teetertotters and seesawed up and down themselves. "This is the kind of animal I have to live with," Carolina whispered bitterly to a friend. "I'll put them in my diary so they will not be forgotten." Audálio Dantas, a reporter for Folhas de São Paulo, who was covering the inauguration, overheard, asked: "What diary...
...Kind. In El Centro, Tex., Laborer Jesus Favela, 92, told a court that he had indeed knocked down his wife, Concepcion, 68, and dragged her to bed by the hair, because...
...people have swarmed into Rio looking for a better life than they had in the provinces. Many of them ended up in shantytowns. Today the favelados number an estimated 500,000, about three-fourths of them Negroes. Rio's cops, tough as they are, avoid favelas even by daylight. "As a sanctuary for criminals," said the newspaper O Globo, "the favelas are as inviolate as the ancient temples. The law . . . stops at the base of the hill, as if it were the frontier of a foreign country." Cariocas fear favela-bred epidemics of disease and crime, but they fear...
With Getulio Vargas' inaugural this week, Rio planned the greatest carnival in history. Every night tambourines sounded in samba time from the capital's shanty-lined favela hills. For the favela folk, pro-Vargas almost to a man, the return of the "father of the poor" called for a big blowout. In their "samba schools," where fathers, mothers and children had paid dues all year toward costumes and a community float for the carnaval parade, the sentiment was the same: "We'll make this one for the velhinho [little...