Clique aqui para Português In late March 2005, state Military Police gunned down 29 people in the neighborhoods of Queimados and Nova Iguaçu, in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan region of Baixada Fluminense, in what […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original petition in Portuguese by Rocinha Sem Fronteiras published on www.change.org click here. We, the undersigned, residents and friends of the favela Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, are here […]
Clique aqui para Português In Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, enterprising residents with their own businesses respond to their neighbors’ needs. In the favela complex of Maré alone, there are over 140,000 residents spread across 17 favelas. Each […]
Clique aqui para Português Despite the heavy rain on March 8, the line from the Odeon Theater in Rio de Janeiro’s Cinêlandia spilled out of the front doors and wrapped around the block. The attendees […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Gil Alessi published by EL PAÍS click here. “E2 pawn to E4,” shouts Antônio Bonfim Lopes, 41, from his seven-square-meter cell at the Porto […]