{"id":1710416,"date":"2026-04-19T05:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1710416"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:40:39","slug":"the-government-tried-to-erase-them-michael-jackson-made-them-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/the-government-tried-to-erase-them-michael-jackson-made-them-immortal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government Tried to Erase Them. Michael Jackson Made Them Immortal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBy9NTBqs8o?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In 1996, Michael Jackson landed in a Rio favela to film \u201cThey Don\u2019t Care About Us.\u201d The Brazilian government tried to stop him, saying it would embarrass the country, and even Pel\u00e9 opposed the shoot. But Jackson kept going anyway. With local support and Marcinho VP\u2019s protection, the community of Dona Marta helped him film in safety. Today, a bronze Michael Jackson statue stands on that hillside, proof that the attempt to erase the favela failed.<\/p>\n<p>Turn on notifications to never miss our next story.<br \/>\n#MichaelJackson #MJ #Brazil #TheyDontCareAboutUs #Pele #History #Shorts #KingOfPop #Documentary #HumanInterest #shorts #truestory<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kBy9NTBqs8o\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996, Michael Jackson landed in a Rio favela to film \u201cThey Don\u2019t Care About Us.\u201d The Brazilian government tried to stop him, saying it would embarrass the country, and even Pel\u00e9 opposed the shoot. But Jackson kept going anyway. With local support and Marcinho VP\u2019s protection, the community of Dona Marta helped him film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710418,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710416\/revisions\/1710418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}