Elizabeth Gorman

Rio’s ‘paci­fi­ca­tion’ pro­gramme in the spot­light as po­lice killings con­tin­ue dur­ing the World Cup.

Only of­fi­cial ven­dors or peo­ple au­tho­rised by FIFA can sell prod­ucts around World Cup sta­di­ums, caus­ing lo­cal anger.

Since the mil­i­tary’s ‘paci­fi­ca­tion’ in Rio de Janeiro, com­mer­cial tourism of down­trod­den ar­eas has ex­plod­ed.

Amnesty In­ter­na­tion­al re­port on ex­ces­sive use of force by Brazil’s po­lice rais­es con­cerns ahead of foot­ball tour­na­ment.

Rio de Janeiro favela hosts Peo­ple’s Cup for com­mu­ni­ties af­fect­ed by FIFA re­stric­tions, evic­tions and home de­mo­li­tions.

For­mer se­cu­ri­ty con­trac­tor uses a web fo­rum to sup­port an in­de­pen­dent re­port lam­bast­ing US gov­ern­ment snoop­ing.