Banishing Drug Lords From Rio de Janeiro's Favelas in Pre-Olympic Sweep http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

In Rio de Janeiro the government has created an ambitious plan called "Pacification," which is designed to clean up that city's image by cutting down on the drug trafficking and violence in its hundreds of shantytowns. Since February of 2012, Spanish photographer Rafael Fabr?s has been covering the process.



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