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Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian

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Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian - Gay, Robert
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"Favelas," or shantytowns, are where cocaine is mainly sold in Rio de Janeiro. There are some six hundred "favelas" in the city, and most of them are controlled by well-organized and heavily armed drug gangs. The struggle for the massive profits from this drug trade has resulted in what are increasingly violent and deadly confrontations between rival drug gangs and a corrupt and brutal police force, that have transformed parts of the city into a war-zone. "Lucia" tells the story of one woman who was once intimately involved ...

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Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian

2005, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9781592133390

Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian

2005, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9781592133383

Books by Robert Gay

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fiddler

Mar 2, 2010

A Favela Woman's Life Story

I read this book for my anthropology class, and mind you, I never knew anything about the favelas of Brazil, and the violence within these slums the innocents have to deal with everyday.

This story is an easy read, because it's in the form of a dialogue interview. Lucia (of course that's not her real name... to reveal that would put her life in danger) tells the story of her day to day life where survival is key, and people just live to get by. Enlightening!

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