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CRACOLÂNDIA: WHERE MISERY MEETS ADDICTION AND CRIME

On July 28th, São Paulo Mayor, Ricardo Nunes, declared the interdiction of tents and barracks in the region informally known as Cracolândia. Cracolândia is an area between Santa Ifigênia and Campos Elíseos neighbourhoods, in São Paulo’s Central Region, where approximately 1.600 people purchase and consume crack daily triggering the apparition of other petty crimes, since the mid-1990s.

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