[ noun ] a port city of northeastern Brazil on the Atlantic <noun.location>
Figures compiled by the National Movement for Street Boys and Girls, which counsels abandoned children, indicate 333 street kids were killed by death squads last year in Recife, Sao Paulo and Rio.
Although the pope has emphatically told priests to stay out of politics and has punished radical Brazilian theologists, in 1980 he met in Recife with Camara, then considered a "non-person" by the military government.
In Recife, large crowds danced behind 10-foot-high papier mache dolls as cups of "cachaca," a potent rum-like drink, were handed out from trucks.