Like in human shantytowns, the main challenge facing the dog favela is making ends meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Dogs Get Their Own Favela In Brazil | Impact Lab] Reference

Paul Goldberger, a writer for New Yorker magazine, described the area as a "favela" - a word for a Brazilian slum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castle Coalition: In The News] Reference

In 1897, it was the site of the world's first "favela" - a seizure of vacant lands by former slaves seeking a better life in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

In Fortaleza (a large city in Brazil's impoverished Northeast), a "favela".    From Wordnik.com.  [INTER PRESS SERVICE] Reference

This is basically a party in the favela which is organized by the drug lords.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

On Tuesday we went to a favela which is a general term for Brazil´s shanty towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Brazil there is misery, the "favela", just like in any other country of Latin America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English] Reference

The film was set in a Rio de Janeiro favela during Carnaval.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture] Reference

One doesn´t steal bicycles; life´s very blood, in a favela.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prison of the Mind] Reference

Why did she venture into the forbidden territory of the favela?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look Homeward, Angel] Reference

A street in a favela — not wide enough for more than one person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil in Color!] Reference

The favela kids, the beach party people, all of Rio loves a good show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Dalby: Rio's Olympic Bid - Taking the Games To New Ground] Reference

This perspective unites hill and asphalt to give a face to the favela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

Nowhere has the impact of Baggio's schools been greater than in the favela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil's Junkyard Angel] Reference

"favela Rising" was a documentary I shot in the favela, or slums, of Brazil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitch Dark in Colombia] Reference

Shantytowns are nearly as old as Rio, but the favela excursion is a new business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slumming Is Hot In Rio] Reference

One day, for no good reason, Alma drives into São Paulo's most notorious favela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look Homeward, Angel] Reference

Growing up in a favela, he learned early that group rules were essential to survival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Ehrmann: Brazil: Futebol Before Politics] Reference

"They want to cage us like animals," says Antonio Marques, who lives in the Rocinha favela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walls Around Rio's Slums Protect Trees] Reference

Magrinho kidnaps the rich to provide food, medicine, sewage and smooth roads for his favela.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Full Frame Dispatch. 2.] Reference

Alternatively, they could be arranged less formally, more crowded, as haphazard as a favela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obelisk-on-Wheels] Reference

Sidney Silva, 39, is a resident of a favela, or slum, called Cantagalo, on the edge of Ipanema.    From Wordnik.com.  [Da Silva's Choice Wins Brazliian Election But Faces Run-Off] Reference

In this alliance, gangs would "lend" members to one another depending on the necessity in each favela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Site Charts 3 Months of Violence] Reference

"When they are looking for a job, and say they are from a 'favela' (shanty town), they are not taken on.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPS Inter Press Service] Reference

The school we visited is in "Heliopolis," Sao Paulo's second largest favela and home to some 120,000 people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Kolb: The Building Blocks of Corporate Statesmanship] Reference

Recently, they have compelled favela residents to photograph their votes with cell phones, as proof of loyalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris McGowan: Green Party's Gabeira May Be a Troubled Rio de Janeiro's Best Hope] Reference

Throughout the 135-minute film, our gaze rarely strays beyond the scruffy confines of the favela, or shantytown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suffocating In The Slums] Reference

An actor dressed as Santa Claus was being flown in by helicopter to the favela of Nova Mare for a Christmas party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santa Fired Upon Flying Over Rio de Janeiro Shanty Town] Reference

This Oscar-nominated film tells a timeless crime story of lost innocence from the teeming favela slums of Rio de Janeiro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gangster Love] Reference

In a recent solicitation, it offered a vision of a human-robot military SWAT team busting down doors in a favela of the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pentagon to Cities: Drop Dead] Reference

Luiz Fantozzi, founder of a favela tour in Brazil, says he attracted two clients per week five years ago; he drew 650 last month alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boom In ‘Poorism’] Reference

Along with being terrorized by militias and drug gangs, favela residents have almost no basic services and receive zero police protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris McGowan: Green Party's Gabeira May Be a Troubled Rio de Janeiro's Best Hope] Reference