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Brazilian police seized a record 48 tons of marijuana in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, uncovered by chance by a sniffer dog during a regular operation against criminal factions.
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CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
Official samba schools began forming in the 1930s, bringing the (previously criminalised) dance into the mainstream and celebrating an art form produced by Rio’s favela communities (Afro-Brazilian heritage is still at the heart).
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Laura French,
TheWeek,
18 Mar. 2026
Upper-class directors making films about very impoverished regions and communities—the classic themes, hunger and violence in the favelas.
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Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
Now a community organizer and member of an anti-violence collective who works in the favela, Medeiros is no stranger to how the Red Command instills fear in its territories.
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Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
Official samba schools began forming in the 1930s, bringing the (previously criminalised) dance into the mainstream and celebrating an art form produced by Rio’s favela communities (Afro-Brazilian heritage is still at the heart).
—
Laura French,
TheWeek,
18 Mar. 2026
Upper-class directors making films about very impoverished regions and communities—the classic themes, hunger and violence in the favelas.
—
Stephania Taladrid,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
Now a community organizer and member of an anti-violence collective who works in the favela, Medeiros is no stranger to how the Red Command instills fear in its territories.
—
Alessandra Freitas,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for favela
Noun
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These monkeys, stuck in a cold studio, use their imagination and whatever is at hand to create their own jungle.
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On Nia Archives’ second album, Emotional Junglist, jungle’s pop princess folds surf, pop-rock, and grunge into high-octane breaks.
Noun
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As the family moved through the shantytown’s narrow streets, gunfire erupted.
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Late one night in Payatas, a shantytown near a garbage dump in Manila’s outskirts, Santiago knocked on the door of a funeral office.
Noun
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Kil was fired in 2024 after participating in demonstrations related to the war in Gaza, including protests over a guest lecture and a campus encampment.
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Roden-Reynolds, the epidemiologist Lea Hamner, and Virginia Barbatti, the executive director of a nonprofit called Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard, were hunched over their laptops at locations around the island, scrutinizing a map of enemy encampments.
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“Favela.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/favela. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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