There have been violent protests in the city this week outside the Eastern Military Command in centro - favela residents burned buses and threw rocks at soldiers. Why?
A judge has ordered the Brazilian Army has been ordered out of the Providencia slum after the bodies of three young men (aged 17, 19 and 24) were found in a garbage dump - 11 soldiers are suspected of killing the men.
The army has been in Providencia since December to protect workers in a federal program to build homes and create jobs.
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