Tavares Bastos is afavela in theCatete neighborhood ofRio de Janeiro,Brazil. It is named after the Brazilian politicianAureliano Cândido Tavares Bastos. The main access road is theRua Tavares Bastos.
Many films have been filmed in the Tavares Bastos, includingElite Squad,Last Stop 174 andThe Incredible Hulk.[1] The Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams music video "Beautiful" was also filmed in the favela.
The favela used to be the only major city slum where drug trafficking or activities of militias were curtailed due to the presence of the headquarters of theBatalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, the special police unit of theMilitary Police of Rio de Janeiro State. This was described in the factual bookElite da Tropa, which was made into the filmElite Squad.
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