[Where did you live?] I lived in the warehouse, in 700. [How long did you live there for?] More than 30 years. [How did you find out they wanted to demolish the houses?] Creuza: They went there and spoke to us. Her mother: They said they were going to knock it down and put up
You can’t even put a cup of water down, in case it bothers someone below. Can you imagine that? And people say ah, the government did this crap for us, but it wasn’t the government. The government paid to have it done. The people who did it did it badly, they used material of the
My name is Bazileu Jose Alves Costa, I’m 51 and I work in the workshop. [How long did you live there for?] I lived there for eight years. They turned up with their machines, and said in a month’s time… they were in a hurry to take us out of there. It was good for
I work as… sometimes I work in construction, as an assistant. Sometimes I work with a cart, with my little horse. I take rubble away, a lot of things. I do house moves, I work with scrap… City Hall went there, registered us, and said they were going to knock down the warehouse, that this
My name is Andressa Texeira da Silva Lima, I’m 30, and I’m a housewife. I went to a place on social rent, for – I’m not sure exactly – three or four months – and afterwards I came here. A team from City Hall came, saying that City Hall had this Transolimpica project, and that
Photos – I have to tell you, I don’t take photos. Andre Luiz da Silva Campos, I’m 38, I work in civil construction. We had to leave there to go on social rent, and wait until they moved us here. From there, it took a lifetime, about a year of evictions. There were some people
It’s a long journey. I managed to stay for six months in an occupation in the city centre. It was during that time that City Hall arrived asking for the space of the land where we lived. They didn’t say anything about the Porta Maravilha project, they just said they were going to build a
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We lived near Recreio, you know, near to Amoedo, I was practically born and brought up there, I lived in the same place where the new lane was built, when I was 14 years old. I played a lot there, in the park, where they had the aquatic park. I lived in a little kitchenette,
Alda Rodrigues de Sousa Matias. [How long did you live there for?] 25 years. They turned up, started writing on our house, you know, taking photos, measuring it, you know how it was. Afterwards, we went to the City Hall, they called us there to do the documents, to leave. The viaduct there was going
