Camilo Coelho, once a public security reporter for Jornal Extra, is now the driving force behind Blog da Pacificação, which has the mission of finding and sharing the stories of the “moradores de bem” (good residents) in favelas with UPPs. He has been doing this work for over a year. In this video, Camilo says there are tangible gains from this project and that cariocas want to believe that it will improve their city. He discusses his work and how it has made him a proponent of the UPP project, while admitting that more needs to be done in terms of social investment because the police alone cannot tackle all problems.
*Editor’s note: In this video, Camilo says that the blog is apolitical and that he does not work for the government, but is, instead, contracted by Casa Digital, an advertising agency “that believes in Rio.” Casa Digital is the digital media branch of the firm Agência Prole [http://prole.com.br/projetos.html], which manages the multimillion real contracts [http://prole.com.br/clientes.html] of Viva Rio, AfroReggae, and the city and state governments of Rio de Janeiro. It also managed the recent reelection campaigns for Mayor Eduardo Paes and Governor Sérgio Cabral, a campaign on which Coelho worked.