Clique aqui para Português Rio de Janeiro is falling behind on its promise to plant 24 million trees to offset the carbon emissions produced as a result of hosting the 2016 Olympic Games. According to […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 1 in a four-part series on the History of Rio de Janeiro’s Military Police. Click for Parts 2, 3, and 4. To fully understand the nature of the Brazilian […]
For the original by Cláudia Freitas in Portuguese in Jornal do Brasil click here. According to data by Fiocruz, hypertension, stroke, depression, and even suicide were reported. Removals occurring in communities such as Complexo do Alemão […]
Clique aqui para Português Every month, representatives of 116 families meet in a warehouse in central Rio. The families currently live in different parts of the city: in the favelas of Parque da Cidade and […]
After a year of protest it’s time to re-examine what kind of Rio de Janeiro is emerging from the ‘city project.’ The widely (though not universally) held belief that Brazil had entered a new era […]