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The Priests of the Favelados Sir: These priests, known and beloved among the thousands of favelados, must gratefully welcome Dr. Romano, eleventh-hour hero though he be!

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Ballot's picture of eight Gonzaleses crowded into a single slum-house bedroom had much the same impact as Parks's shot of the Rio favelados crowded into theirs.

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Like most other favelas, it has no piped water supply; favelados lug pump water up the hill by the bucketful.

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But Perp�tuo belonged to the favelados, and 5,000 of them turned out to march in the procession, and crowd around his coffin for a last look, or touch, or tear.

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"There is nowhere for the favelados to go," he says.

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