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		</div><p>Police have started evicting hundreds of homeless families from a recently established tent city near Rio de Janeiro, underscoring Brazil’s resurgent poverty during the pandemic.</p>
<p>TV images showed residents blocking the entrance to the campsite with bonfires as police launched tear gas canisters and fired water cannons at the tents.</p>
<p>With the southern hemisphere in the heart of its winter, the city was experiencing one of its coldest mornings on record.</p>
<p>The forced removal in Itaguai followed a court decision in favour of the land’s owner, state-run oil company Petrobras.</p>
<p>The residents had occupied the plot since May and baptised it the “First of May Refugee Camp”.</p>
<p>One unidentified woman from the informal settlement appeared on the Globo News television channel begging for help. “I’m a domestic worker,” she said through tears. “The woman fired me because of the pandemic. Help me, please, I have nowhere to go, I don’t have any family.”</p>
<p>Shantytowns have emerged in several cities across Brazil, reflecting a surge of poverty after the government pared back one of the world’s most generous pandemic welfare programmes.</p>
<p>That left many exposed to soaring inflation as the nation’s weak job market has yet to show signs of recovery.</p>
<p>According to the national statistics agency, 14.8 million people were unemployed in the three months to April, or nearly 15% of the population. That tied the level recorded in the first quarter of 2021 that was the highest since the data series began in 2012.</p>
<p>Rio’s police department said the eviction was part of a legal process to recover the plot of land.</p>
<p>Petrobras said in a statement that, in compliance with the court order, the company had provided hand sanitiser and face masks and offered transport to three nearby bus stations.</p>
<p>By early afternoon, children could seen carrying their families’ few belongings out of the area as heavily armed police stood watch.</p>
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