“Olympics Media to Stay in Apartments Built with Slave Labor on Slave Burial Ground”, 17 July 2016.

Apartment blocks that will house journalists during the 2016 Olympic Games were built using “labor in conditions analogous to slavery,” and...erected on a slave burial ground on land claimed by...[ Quilombo do Camorim]..., a community of descendants of runaway slaves...,...near...Olympic venues in...Rio de Janeiro...founded in the 19th century...The construction project by real estate developer Cyrela is initially intended to house international journalists during the Games...and is the source of a series of controversies, including people working in “conditions analogous to slavery,” building on land claimed by the Quilombo do Camorim community, on a mass slave grave and in an environmentally protected area; and the removal of over 1,000 native trees and community facilities,...affecting the area’s water supply. Residents strongly resisted the construction of the apartment complex and are currently campaigning for a community center to be built on an adjacente...land which was donated by Cyrela to the municipal government. The community center would...provide a recreational area...[and]...help preserve the area’s rich environmental and historical heritage passed on by Afro-Brazilians...Cyrela has claimed that it had all the necessary licenses for the construction...