Chile's oldest women's magazine featured an interview of Major Pricilla de Oliveira Azevedo, who now leads the Pacification Police Unit in Rocinha, Brazil's largest single favela. She was appointed "after a political fall-out from the arrest of her predecessor and 12 other officers, who were charged with the murder of resident Amarildo de Souza, a bricklayer who was last seen at police headquarters being interrogated with electric shocks and asphyxiation." (see guardian story)
This portrait was taken of her in Favela Santa Marta, the first favela pacified in the city of Rio, where she first led the UPP unit.
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