Slum Project Inauguration

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, second from right, Rio de Janeiro's governor Sergio Cabral, second from left, vice-governor Luiz Fernando, left, and city's minister Marcio Fortes, right, press together the button to launch the works to build a lift to take uphill the residents of the Pavao/Pavaozinho slum complex, overlooking Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 30, 2007. President Lula da Silva visited one of this city's most prominent slums to inaugurate the PAC, a multibillionnaire dollar work's program for the city's poor communities. (Australfoto/Renzo Gostoli)

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, second from right, Rio de Janeiro's governor Sergio Cabral, second from left, vice-governor Luiz Fernando, left, and city's minister Marcio Fortes, right, press together the button to launch the works to build a lift to take uphill the residents of the Pavao/Pavaozinho slum complex, overlooking Ipanema beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 30, 2007. President Lula da Silva visited one of this city's most prominent slums to inaugurate the PAC, a multibillionnaire dollar work's program for the city's poor communities. (Australfoto/Renzo Gostoli)

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