Topic: Sergio Cabral
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Latin America Monitor
Top questions for Rio heading into 2013The host of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics faces many questions as it prepares for mega-events that are changing the way things are working in Rio de Janeiro.
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Latin America Monitor
Gentrification: a new word in Brazilian conversationAs Rio prepares for the 2016 Olympics it balances the desire to transform the city with calls to maintain its rich mosaic of communities.
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Latin America Monitor
Brazil is stamping out favela violence – now on to trash collection and educationBrazil's first impact study on its Police Pacification Units reveals that the program has significantly reduced violence, but still needs extensive reform.
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Latin America Monitor
Makeover for Rio's favelas: What is at stake?One of every five residents in Rio de Janeiro lives in a favela, and faces public security and health threats. But the city's plan to improve slums has been met with distrust, writes a guest blogger.
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Latin America Monitor
Why some Rio residents yearn for an iron-fisted druglordAfter the police occupation of a large Rio de Janeiro favela last year, there is a new spike in crime, the result of poor police coordination, says guest blogger Julia Michaels.
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Latin America Monitor
Will Brazil's Carnival be canceled?Police in Rio de Janeiro agreed to a strike last night, just days ahead of the world's most famous carnival celebration.
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Latin America Monitor
Could police strikes spread in Brazil?Local police are striking over pay in Salvador, and some fear the unrest could spread to Rio just in time for Carnival, writes guest blogger Julia Michaels.
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Latin America Monitor
Rio's transformation needs new phaseA plan to train all 55,000 military and civil police officers by 2015, in time for the Olympics, is a step in the right direction, writes guest blogger Julia Michaels.
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Latin America Monitor
Wake for Brazil's 'greatest black activist' do Nascimento highlights racial progressA diversity of Brazilians who turned out for the public wake of Abdias do Nascimento, who fought for black rights in a country that imported far more African slaves than America.
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China's role in realizing 'Latin America decade'
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff arrived in China today accompanied by 300 business leaders on a visit aimed at boosting a growing economic partnership.
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Blame game begins in wake of deadly Brazil floods
As the Brazil floods continue, some blame municipalities for allowing residents to build in insecure areas, while others blame the federal government for misallocating funds.
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Global News Blog
Rash of Rio violence rattles even hardened residents in Brazil's World Cup host cityTorching of cars and buses raise concerns over policing methods as Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
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Rio protests: Sharing Brazil's oil revenues will hurt 2016 Olympics
Residents of Rio de Janeiro are staging protests today against a law that give more of Brazil's oil revenues to other states, reducing Rio's share. And the governor of Rio says it will undermine the state's ability to host the 2016 Olympics and the 2014 World Cup.
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Brazil vows Olympic security after Rio violence
At least 14 people were killed in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, including two policemen who died when their helicopter was brought down by warring drug gangs.
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