Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep

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Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep

In Rio de Janeiro the government has created an ambitious plan called “Pacification,” which is designed to clean up that city’s image by cutting down on the drug trafficking and violence in its hundreds of shantytowns. Since February of 2012, Spanish phot

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/02/rafael-fabres-favelas/?viewall=true

“Since February of 2012, Spanish photographer Rafael Fabrés, 30, has been covering the process of pacification, a strategy with many complications.

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