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	Rocinha - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rocinha is a favela located within the city of Rio de Janeiro, between the districts of São Conrado and Gávea.
		Although Rocinha is still a favela, it has developed from shanty town into an urbanised slum.
		Due to its proximity to the richest neighborhoods of Rio, Rocinha is the center of a drug war between crime factions fighting for the control of the most profitable illegal drug selling point in Rio de Janeiro.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Rocinha (249 words)

	Rocinha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rocinha is a favela located within the Zona Sul of Rio de Janeiro, between the districts of São Conrado and Gávea.
		Although Rocinha is still a favela, it has developed from a shanty town into an urbanised slum.
		Rocinha, like many of Rio’s favelas, was under the control of a criminal faction known as the ADA (Amigos dos Amigos), until the recent death of leader Bem-Te-Vi in October of 2005 at the hands of the police.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rocinha (679 words)

	The Brazilianist Magazine
		Rocinha's proximity to Rio's famous Ipanema Beach was one factor.
		The Rocinha samba school and nightclubs draw crowds on weekends, and the entertainment often includes famous singers such as Fernanda Abreu, whose music is inspired by life in the favelas.
		It's a nighttime view, from a balcony in Rocinha, of glittering Ipanema Beach and the mountainside Christ statue at Corvocado.
	www.brazilianist.com /21spring02/21_rocinha.html (970 words)

	Interview with Richard Perle
		Rocinha is older and more established than most favelas: as early as the mid-Fifties impoverished rural migrants set up their huts here.
		Rocinha is regarded as a slightly safer place than other favelas such as Cidade de Deus, where few outsiders dare to venture.
		Few people in Rocinha are willing to talk about the life under the state of siege by which the gang keeps the majority of the population hostage.
	www.kleveman.com /latinamerica/telegraph_magazine0905.htm (5763 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Many institutions concerned with Rocinha's commerce are being invited to participate in the research.
		Rocinha's institutions partnership is very important, not only because they have strategic information, legitimacy and representativity, but also because each one involved can look for useful information to its presente and future work.
		The construction of a panel with Rocinha images from the last 10 years and the participation in contests, prizes, seminars, congress and other events related to social projects will be very important to strengthen relationship, to build network and to make interaction with other institutions easier.
	www.changemakers.net /cm/journal/04november/displaycbi.cfm?ID=12 (1263 words)

	What' s Rocinha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rocinha is the largest favela, or hillside slum, in Brazil, looming precariously over the scenic beaches of Rio de Janeiro on the mountain known as Two Brothers.
		Despite the reputation of Rocinha in Brazil and around the world as a no man’s land run by drug traffickers, it is, in fact, a tight-knit community where neighbors know and care about each other.
		Rocinha is a hub of intense human activity, a place of creativity, energy and hard work.
	www.2bros.org /whats_rocinha.htm (278 words)

	Brazil faces drugs ‘civil war’ - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rocinha residents’ association spokesman Petrônio Alves said there were no police on guard when Dudu mounted the invasion attempt.
		Rocinha, founded in 1929, is mainly made up of immigrants from the impoverished northeast who work for the city’s wealthy.
		Rocinha’s previous period of calm had allowed it to enjoy a brief renaissance as a tourist trap.
	www.sundayherald.com /41882 (1521 words)

	FiftyCrows - Social Change Photography
		When I was leaving, Paulinho invited me to make a documentary of Rocinha, the community where he was born, to show the happiness that sometimes exists in the middle of economic despair.
		Rocinha is the main stronghold where many members of the Comando Vermelho - Red Command - the largest criminal organization in Brazil - live and are adored.
		Obviously, it is in the best interest of the C.V. to take care of the residents of Rocinha for if they are supported, so too will the residents support and protect them when the army attempts one of their rare raids.
	www.fiftycrows.org /photoessay/cypriano/index.php (1021 words)

	Residents of Rio's Favelas Face Diverse Risks \| Worldwatch Institute
		Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro´s richest and most developed favelas, is home to between 100,000-150,000 people.
		Rocinha´s highly-prized location in the “Zona Sul,” or south zone (which also includes famous seafront neighbourhoods such as Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon), coupled with the violence caused by intra-gang warfare and police invasions, has created a very densely populated but undesirable living situation.
		He migrated to Rocinha to be closer to informal work opportunities and to escape a favela war between opposing drug gangs vying for power.
	www.worldwatch.org /node/4756 (1088 words)

	Yui Natsuyagi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rocinha is at the base of a mountain, on the outskirts of the city.
		These alleys serve as Rocinha’s sewage system and the choking stench is part of Rafaela’s life.
		Local residents of Rio say Rocinha is not a favela anymore, it is a community.
	www.yuinatsuyagi.com /story.asp (409 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The cooperative's members have migrated to Rocinha from Brazil's drought-stricken northeast region, trading the danger of rural starvation for the risk of urban violence.
		The sensorial pleasures of the unexpected are reflected in the startling natural beauty of Rio de Janeiro itself, where charcoal-colored mountains and azure skies contrast with hot sands and rolling surf.
		Rocinha has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state of Rio de Janeiro, but none of the "New Generation" students became pregnant while studying at Coopa-Roca, Tetê notes.
	changemakers.net /journal/02june/walbran.cfm (2780 words)

	dreams can be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The kids called the office asking why we were not having activities – for them this is their reality, they have lived through this before and are used to it.
		Rocinha was shut down completely the next day in mourning and by that night a new 20+ year-old chefe was in charge.
		We have resumed our activities in Rocinha as the police have moved on to another slum looking for the ex-chefe.
	www.dreamscanbe.org /news_message_2004_04.html (440 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Drugs violence abates in Rio slum
		Rocinha - home to 150,000 people - was hit by a wave of shootings over the weekend, as gangs fought for control of some of the most lucrative cocaine distribution points.
		Meanwhile, Brazilian media reports that a man shot dead in Rocinha on Wednesday is believed to the leader of one of the gangs.
		Unlike most shantytowns or "favelas", Rocinha is in a luxury beachside zone of the city - a tourist magnet - and some analysts suggested the violence might have come too close for comfort for Rio's wealthiest inhabitants.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3627445.stm (406 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The cooperative's members have migrated to Rocinha from Brazil's drought-stricken northeast region, trading the danger of rural starvation for the risk of urban violence.
		She had been an art educator and social scientist, and was coordinating a children's program, when she received a random donation of fabric scraps.
		Rocinha has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state of Rio de Janeiro, but none of the "New Generation" students became pregnant while studying at Coopa-Roca, TetÃª notes.
	www.changemakers.net /journal/02june/walbran.cfm (2780 words)

	What is Poverty?
		We toured Rocinha, which is the biggest favela in Rio De Janeiro, with a formal recorded population of 60, 000 people, but most people believe it could contain as much as 200,000 people.
		I had a constant feeling of confusion while in Rocinha, because I could not understand why I felt so safe in a place that had such a horrible reputation.
		The people in the favelas did not look impoverished; one factor could have been because Rocinha is on of the nicer favelas.
	org.elon.edu /brazilmagazine/2004/article13.htm (849 words)

	The Sun - Mirror on the mountain: Brazil contrasts
		Rocinha, with a population estimated at more than 200,000, boasts many paved roads and is the first favela to have been granted a municipal bus line.
		Rocinha’s first upscale gym, R1 Fitness, with a membership rate – around $20 a month – one fifth that of what was available in the neighboring areas.
		In Rocinha, this is rarely the case, and in fact, people from the middle class who grew up in regular neighborhoods are starting to move in to Rocinha.
	www.mwcsun.com /features/local_story_333124735.html (2081 words)

	Greatreporter.com - Rio de Janeiro mounts 'war on terror' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rocinha has two banks, two radio-stations, two bus-routes, two supermarkets, three nightclubs, three of its own newspapers and a website.
		Fischer describes Rocinha as "a community of immigrants," and says British and Italian students also live in the area.
		Of the 2,500 Rocinha residents interviewed by local television, 56 per cent used the local shopping mall, 23 per cent had a credit card and 93 per cent had a least one television at home.
	www.greatreporter.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=189 (645 words)

	:: rocinhaproject.com :: Rocinha facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This is some updated information on Rocinha: click here :: Currently there are drug wars that have been going on since February 2004.
		Rocinha started in the '40s after a group of squatters took over the land.
		Rocinha, however, has shown how the poor could evolve into a working-class district.
	www.rocinhaproject.com /facts.html (412 words)

	Latest geographical issues in the news
		Rocinha, Brazil’s most well-known hillside slum, has been in the news for all of the wrong reasons in April.
		Rocinha is the largest favela in South America, with some 127,000 residents.
		The growth of Rocinha was driven by the lack of a government policy to address the housing problems of the poorest members of society as far back as the 1800s.
	www.geographyinthenews.rgs.org /news/article/?id=282 (1834 words)

	peopleandplanet.net > cities > features > slum creates its own web site
		Deep in the heart of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's largest slum, a state-of-the-art cybercafe is buzzing with activity.
		Rocinha, Rio's largest and most vibrant favela, hosts an estimated 250,000 of the city's over one million slum dwellers, who make up at least one-fifth of the city's population.
		A stone's throw away from Rio's glamourous Ipanema Beach, Rocinha enjoys a standard of living that would be the envy of many middle class people in other parts of the world.
	www.peopleandplanet.net /doc.php?id=2075 (899 words)

	Gang shuts Rio shops to mourn kingpin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The closure of businesses on gang orders is common in many of Rio's teeming slums when a kingpin dies, but in the Rocinha slum it comes only a day after the authorities said the situation there was totally under control.
		Over 1,000 police have been occupying Rocinha -- one of Latin America's largest slums with a population of 150,000 -- since they moved in to stop a gang turf war on Monday.
		Luciano Barbosa da Silva, nicknamed Lulu, who had run the Rocinha drug trade since 1995, died on Wednesday, with another gangster, in a shootout with an elite police unit in the slum.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /brazil/mourn.htm (310 words)

	Greenwich Village Gazette: Columns: Brazil: Ernest Barteldes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In Rocinha, as in many favelas, the rumor is that the Comando Vermelho will hurt you if you commit a crime, because this will bring the police to the community.
		Like Rocinha, Kibera sits on valuable turf in between two luxurious upper class enclaves, and could be vulnerable to a real estate deal.
		And squatters sometimes have a vigilante instinct (in Kenya, for instance, people would sometimes band together to beat up a thief if they caught him ripping someone off in their area.) In Rocinha, I was told that people would sometimes visit the traficantes to resolve small community issues.
	www.gvny.com /columns/barteldes/barteldes05-06-05.html (1388 words)

	Enredo da Rocinha : O Viagem Encantado do Ze' Carioca a Disney
		The Rocinha samba school was founded on March 30th, 1988, and since 1989 has participated in all carnivals at the.
		It began in the entrance group where it won first prize, later participated in parades of the third and second groups until being promoted in 1992 to Group l, where it gained Ist runner up position in the carnival of 1996 thus reaching the Special Group for its 1997 presentation.
		Rocinha's colors wazzu are green, blue and white, and its symbol is the butterfly.
	www.artes.com /rocinha/enredoingl.htm (672 words)

	PhilipGlass.com: Compositions: Days and Nights in Rocinha
		Rocinha is a neighborhood in Rio de janeriro famous for its lively cultural life and especially its "samba school" (Whose appearance is the highpoint of the "Carnival" every year).
		I often visited Rocinha during the weeks before "Carnival" and have always been moved and delighted by its unique environment.
		Days and Nights in Rocinha is my musical impression and tribute to this place.
	www.philipglass.com /html/compositions/days-and-nights-in-rocinha.html (116 words)

	Energy - Bringing Light to Rio's slums
		For residents of Rocinha, where a lack of a electricity affects lives at the most basic level, this is not an unusual hardship.
		As in the other 250 favelas that Light has already tackled?usually those with the most egregious infrastructure problems?the Rocinha program works hand-in-hand with local nongovernmental organizations to make sure people understand what the effort entails and to get their buy-in.
		A lifetime resident of Rocinha, she says the program is "legal," using a play on words to say it is literally legal as well as "cool." "With a meter and connections," she says, "we will not have problems with power shortages.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTENERGY/0,,contentMDK:20035075~menuPK:336844~pagePK:64020865~piPK:149114~theSitePK:336806,00.html (1567 words)

	globalinfo.org - Apr 12, BRAZIL (#29232)
		Gunfire has become an ongoing danger in Rocinha since early Friday, when a large group of armed men invaded the favela seeking -- according to residents and the police -- to push out and replace the gang that controlled the drug trade in a part of the neighbourhood.
		An operation of this magnitude is unprecedented, and could "win the war, but the greater challenge is to achieve peace," in other words, to create a climate of permanent calm in the neighbourhood, says Rubem Cesar Fernandes, coordinator of the non-governmental organisation Viva Rio, active in several of the city's favelas.
		Residents say the drug traffickers contributed in their way to keeping the peace: they chased out thieves and other criminals, that is, until a few years ago when the drug lord known as Denis was sent to prison where he was murdered.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=29232 (930 words)

	Narcos, política y vida cotidiana en la Rocinha, la mayor favela de Río88
		Por ahí se ingresa a la Rocinha, la mayor favela de Río de Janeiro, con 200.000 moradores y uno de los peores grupos narcos de la región, con ejército privado visible, justicia propia y dominio total de la comunidad.
		La primera calle hacia la Rocinha, antes de que el camino comience a enredarse, es una senda en pendiente alta. Ahí está la zona comercial más abigarrada, con música que truena hasta entrada la noche, billares, bares y gente yendo y viniendo.
		En el medio de la Rocinha hay un pequeño centro que se abre a otras calles como los brazos de un pulpo.
	www.clarin.com /diario/2006/09/27/elmundo/i-02101.htm (2107 words)

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