Exempel på favela

• With control of the means of violence in favelas, traffickers agree to ensure that no other politicians will come into a favela during an election.

• Traffickers themselves are not brokers in a hierarchical clientelist relationship between politicians and favela residents.

• Clearly traffickers can violently force out other favela leaders.

• Nevertheless, many politicians need the support of the traffickers in order to secure access to a favela's votes.

• This was especially apparent during a flood when residents from the poorest section of the favela refused to evacuate for fear of thieves.

• Only through collusion between traffickers and civic leaders can community groups make effective arrangements to guarantee politicians access to a favela.

• These police occasionally come into the favela, arrest traffickers, and then release them in exchange for a ransom.

• This illustrates flexibility in network connections and also suggests that criminals can gain control of resources destined to help favela residents.

• Traffickers simply act to guarantee access and, in turn, benefit most directly from the politicians contributions to the favela.

• As we saw with the very different relations that politicians and traffickers had with favela residents, networks enable groups to build up different types of linkages between actors.

• Groups danced until dawn, residents drank in the streets, and for the first time in a long while the favela relaxed.

• Rap emerged in the 1990s as a musical representative of a new favela space, and one closely watched by the curious middle class.

• She would also find journals and old notebooks, in which she began to record her day-to-day activities and about her life in the favela.

• As a result, residents of favelas are often discriminated against for living in these communities and often experience inequality and exploitation.

• There is one safe house in this zone, located in one of the favelas.