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Vila Autodromo

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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; The buildings of Vila Autodromo are being torn down after nearly 50 years. The firm that planned the Olympic Park original left the low income community in place, but the Rio de Janeiro city authorities decided to remove the community anyways. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Maria Da Penha Mecena, who works as a house cleaner, leaves her temporary container home. She has become a world wide voice for Vila Autodromo. The red sticker on her door features her image and translates to "The fight goes on". The blue sticker on the door reads "Rio 2016 Game of Exclusion." Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Workers from the Olympic Park wait to buy lunch from one of the temporary container homes transformed by its residents into a make shift restaurant in Vila Autodromo. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Maria Da Penha Mecena walks in front of the Olympic Main Press Center as she gives instructions to local men who came to help residents move to their new city provided homes. Despite being offered hundreds of thousands of dollars and having her nose broken by municipal guards, Mecena refused to leave her community. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Residents from Vila Autodromo start to move their possessions from their old and temporary housing to the new homes built by the city of Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian constitution protects squatters rights and the residents of the community were able to get two other legal decisions affirming their rights to the land.  Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Maria Andrina Das Santoa hangs her laundry in the back yard of her new city provided home in Vila Autodromo. Residents say they wanted to stay in the favela on the out skirts of the city because it is safer. There is no drug trafficking or organized crime like the parts of the city they would have moved. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Marcelo De Silva carries the Brazilian flag to the new houses built by the city of Rio de Janeiro at Vila Autodromo near Olympic Park and the Main Press Center. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; A girl plays on the street of new houses built by the City of Rio  in place of the Vila Autodromo favela near Olympic Park and the Main Press Center. It is estimated that nearly 600 families once lived on the land, but now all but about 20 have been relocated for Olympics.
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  • Jul 30, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Stray dogs play in the church of Vila Autodromo as community activist Maria Da Penha Mecena speaks to journalists and other activist. Mecana has lived in the favela for two decades and has been the main voice in keeping the community together. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
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