{"id":8226,"date":"2010-11-15T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2010-11-03T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T21:43:33","slug":"brazil-peace-in-the-favelas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/11\/brazil-peace-in-the-favelas\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Peace in the Favelas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades Brazil&#8217;s favelas &#8211; or shanty towns &#8211; have been a deadly battleground, where thousands died in the turf wars of rival gangsters and drug lords.<\/p>\n<p>But two years ago &#8211; in anticipation of the football World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Brazilian government launched a new initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Since then the Police Pacifying Units (UPP), have moved into 12 favelas, freeing 150,000 people from the control of the gangs and bringing a new calm to embattled neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>But as filmmakers Dom Rotheroe and Alfonso Daniels found out &#8211; while most residents in the UPP-controlled favelas welcome the fragile peace others fear it may not last.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oyKzGMA_Pm8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades Brazil&#8217;s favelas &#8211; or shanty towns &#8211; have been a deadly battleground, where thousands died in the turf wars of rival gangsters and drug lords. But two years ago &#8211; in anticipation of the football World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Brazilian government launched a new initiative. Since then the Police Pacifying Units (UPP), have moved into 12 favelas, freeing 150,000 people from the control of the gangs and bringing a new calm to embattled neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}