January 30, 2004
Fighting to Get Out of a Rio Slum
Across the stinking bay from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro sprawls the infamous Complexo da Maré, one of the largest and most violent of the city's 500-odd slum communities.
From the main campus you can glimpse the rows of cinder-block hovels clinging for miles to the jagged hillsides. But few students or professors from the public university, which ranks among Brazil's top institutions of higher education, ever venture into Maré.
Cristina Pedroza de
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