Folha de Sao Paulo'' on August 15 to be distributing free of charge lots to 2 thousand homeless families. Those benefited also have received building material to start work on their houses. The lots being distributed are part of a 25 thousand square meter area belonging to a company near Mare and taken over by the traffickers in July. He is known locally as the head of the cocaine and marijuana trafficking in the area. The people of the 'movement' are certainly in favor.
Firms have unused areas side by side with people who have nowhere to live.
It is a question of justice'' commented Ednaldo. Candidates for lots only needed to show that they lived in a rented house in any of the neighboring favelas. Thousands applied for lots. The demand was so high that drug traffickers are reported to be planning the invasion of other unused areas nearby. This event shows how in many poorer areas of Rio de Janeiro drug traffickers run a parallel form of government where police and government organizations have been excluded.