Clique aqui para Português Residents of the lush and peaceful Horto favela in the South Zone neighborhood of Jardim Botânico are organizing resistance efforts in response to a decision by the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) authorizing […]
Clique aqui para Português Most of Rio de Janeiro’s mayoral candidates pay lip service to the city’s favelas somewhere in their housing policy proposals, but of Rio’s 11 mayoral candidates only five have offered specific proposals […]
Clique aqui para Português On Sunday, September 18, residents of the Horto favela in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro held a protest titled “Fica Horto, Fora Globo” (Stay Horto, Go Globo) protesting the pending eviction order against […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Orlando Alves dos Santos Junior in Portuguese published by Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil click here. The institutional political coup that resulted in the illegitimate ousting of President Dilma Rousseff […]
Clique aqui para Português The entire world has spent the last two weeks gripped by incredible feats of sporting achievement and superhuman athletic prowess, all occurring right here in Rio de Janeiro. The plethora of […]