On residents of Rio de Janeiro's Jacarezinho favela were awakened by gutwrenching screams and sounds of gunshots Once the mayhem subsided and they gathered enough courage to stepRocinha, in Rio de Janeiro, is widely considered to be one of Rio de Janeiro's largest, most densely populated and urbanized slums The community has a population estimated at anywhere between 100 and 0 thousand inhabitants, who live crammed into a steep and rugged landscape of only (080) square milesDaily reality in the favelas Salvador de Bahia is a coastal city of 27 million people The organised drug trade certainly has a much smaller presence than in the megacities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo Nonetheless, young men in particular are easy prey for the drug barons in Salvador
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