Vidigal
Hillside community that beat a nineteen-seventies eviction order in court, now clinging to a peak between two famous beaches.
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This guide to Vidigal in Rio opens on the morning of October 24, 1977, when residents woke to find their doors marked for demolition by the agency running the city's slum clearances. It follows organizer Carlos Duque and the residents' association as they turned students, a sympathetic school principal and bus trips to a half-built relocation project into a resistance campaign against the eviction. A geologist who studied the slope disputed the government's claim that it was too unstable to remain settled.
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