Rio das Pedras
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Founded in the late sixties, Rio das Pedras has among its singularities the fact of being one of the few slums in Rio de Janeiro capable of inhibiting drug dealing. However, it is controlled by an illegal strict internal system called "milícia" (militia) dictated by an outlaw police force. To which answers with no mercy to any infraction of its imposed law.
On Father's Day, Sunday of 2006, a fire of big proportions destroyed 500 houses, leaving around 3000 homeless persons. Some of them moved to shelters improvised in a soccer field...