{"id":14857,"date":"2014-05-07T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T17:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=14857"},"modified":"2017-04-02T17:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T20:09:26","slug":"federal-government-to-reassess-repossessions-in-horto-jardim-botanico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=14857","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government to Reassess Repossessions in Horto, Jardim Bot\u00e2nico"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the original in Portuguese in O Dia click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Uproar as the first repossessions commence in the area disputed by\u00a0621 families.<\/h5>\n

Rio\u2013The Brazilian Federal Government may reconsider the issue\u00a0of occupation in the Jardim Bot\u00e2nico area\u00a0by families descended from employees\u00a0of the Botanical Gardens institution, who were allowed to live within the park limits at the beginning of the twentieth century<\/a>. The Secretary General of the Presidency\u2019s Cabinet, Gilberto Carvalho, confirmed on Monday\u00a0May 5 that he\u00a0intends to present the case to President Dilma Rousseff, for her consideration.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>President of the Residents and Friends of Horto Association, Emilia Maria de Souza, said the idea\u00a0was contemplated in a meeting with the Secretary General and community representatives last week, and was\u00a0motivated by residents’\u00a0resistance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minister told us that the government might change its opinion on the Horto<\/a> removal,\u201d said Emilia, who criticized the Botanical Gardens\u00a0director: \u201cbut the president of the institution wants to accelerate the removals, contradicting a decision from the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first removals<\/a> in the disputed area were carried out on Monday. Justice officials and Military Police performed the repossession of Caxinguel\u00ea Club, a leisure area built 60 years ago, used and administrated by the community living within the limits of the Botanical Gardens,\u00a0inaugurated by Don Jo\u00e3o VI in 1808.<\/p>\n

The legal\u00a0dispute between residents and the Botanical Gardens, a federal institution, began in 1990. The area, located in the current district of Horto, was given to\u00a0workers by the park’s administration at the beginning of last century. Since then, 621 families have settled in the community.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Horto residents fear their homes\u00a0will be next in the line of fire. According to Emilia de Souza, 14 cases\u00a0are passing through the courts and demolitions could happen this week.<\/p>\n

During Monday\u2019s operation, police used non-lethal weapons and\u00a0pepper spray to disperse the crowd of residents and activists resisting. In the confusion, two protesters were injured\u00a0by rubber bullets. \u201cThey used force unnecessarily, we were compliant,\u201d said Leonardo Leal, a student who was hit in the armpit.<\/p>\n

In a release, the Military Police alleged, \u201cit was necessary to use non-lethal weapons\u00a0to prevent people from reentering the area.\u201d The president of the Botanical Gardens, Samyra Crespo, claimed the judicial decision had been issued a year ago. She also stated that an orchid greenhouse would be installed to replace the club.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Horto, Federal Deputy Edson Santos said that the Alto Jardim Bot\u00e2nico Neighborhood Association, which represents high-income residents of Horto, wants to remove the area’s poor population.<\/p>\n

The Alto Jardim Bot\u00e2nico Neighborhood Association did not respond to O DIA<\/em>‘s requests for comment before the closing of this edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the original in Portuguese in O Dia click here. Uproar as the first repossessions commence in the area disputed by\u00a0621 families. Rio\u2013The Brazilian Federal Government may reconsider the issue\u00a0of occupation in the Jardim Bot\u00e2nico […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":14861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[698,11,884,282,894,918,17,671,156],"writer":[],"translator":[1192],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-violations","8":"tag-federal-government","9":"tag-forced-evictions","10":"tag-horto","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-jardim-botanico","13":"tag-military-police","14":"tag-police-brutality","15":"tag-president-dilma-rousseff","16":"tag-south-zone","17":"translator-ollie-davies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=14857"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=14857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}