The removal of slums in Rio de Janeiro returned to the state agenda. Since 2009, approximately 21,000 families were removed from their original places of residence. In this article I present, from the ethnographic description, two interconnected dimensions that structure this process: the “intervention logic” and the issue of circulation. Such analytic enterprise will rely on the experience of residents of a slum in the West Zone of the city removed between the years 2010 and 2011 due to the construction of a road secreted into buses, work this included in the list of those that would prepare the city for the Olympic Games 2016.As remoções de favelas no Rio de Janeiro voltaram à agenda estatal. Desde 2009, aproximadamente 21 mil famílias fo...