favela

I interviewed Lilian, a single mother living in a Rio de Janeiro favela.

This time, there were no fatalities, although it was close call for a resident named Alan in the Morro da Formiga favela.

He grew up in one of the poorest areas of Belo Horizonte, the crime-ridden favela of Santa Matilde, located next to two prisons.

The high school kids who broke it were Brazilian Linux hackers who lived in a favela -- a kind of squatter's slum.