The End of Moinho, Central Sao Paulo's Last Shantytown

The end of Moinho, central Sao Paulo's last shantytown

Cintia Bomfim saw her eldest son struck twice by rubber bullets from police during protests this week in Moinho, downtown Sao Paulo’s last favela, which is about to make way for a park and train station. Then on Thursday, after a days-long standoff between authorities and residents resisting their ouster, she received news of an agreement to provide free housing for her and hundreds of other families elsewhere in Latin America’s richest and most…

The Prefect of São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes, was the first participant in the ‘Just Vale to Truth’ program, a new program from Young Pan. During the interview with Marco Antonio Villa, the chief spoke about the favela of Moinho, located near the central region and Via Ferrea, which has been identified as an important centre of drug trafficking operations. Research conducted by the Ministry of Public and Civil Police reveals that the site covers a “C…

When she arrived in São Paulo in 2014, from the interior of Maranhão, Leidivania Domingas Teixeira, now 30 years old, brought the hope that every migrant has: that the largest metropolis in the country would be big enough to accommodate her dreams, with better job and life opportunities. She and her husband, also from Maranhão, settled in Moinho, the last favela in the center of the capital of São Paulo, a territory under fierce dispute.