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Eight miles of walls are being constructed around hundreds of Rio de Janeiro's sprawling slums. Are they really eco-barriers, protecting the rainforest, or a disguise for the city's social problems?
The escalating violence in Brazil's gang-ridden favelas prompted Brazilian Premier Lula da Silva to launch a $3bn crackdown in early 2007. But strangely, the policy was greeted with a storm of disapproval from the country's embattled urban inhabitants.
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