“…Through the programme for ‘pacification’ of favelas, the state-level administration acts together with the other two jurisdictional levels of government (city and federation) in a rare political confluence that aims at breaking the ‘logic of violence’ existing in many parts of the city. This political turn remains contested in terms of underlying motivations, though, especially considering the major events of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games (Cunha, 2011; Fleury, 2012; Lacerda and Brulon, 2013; Leite, 2012).…”