This is the second article in a series by guest researcher Jeffrey Omari,* on ICTs in Rio’s favelas. During a recent visit to Complexo da Maré, in Rio’s North Zone, a friend and resident of the community […]
For the original in Portuguese by Ruben Berta, published in O Globo, click here. Surrounded by rubble, approximately 170 families are still living in the community neighboring the Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca. RIO–The story of […]
Clique aqui para Português In 1807, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed an act abolishing the international traffic of enslaved people within the British Empire. Much of the pressure to pass the act had come […]
For the original in Portuguese with video, by Bruno Porpetta, published in Brasil de Fato and Brasil247, click here. Architect Lucas Faulhaber and journalist Lena Azevedo have launched a book that documents the history of arbitrary evictions in […]
The world-famous jazz bar, The MAZE, in the Tavares Bastos favela in Rio’s South Zone neighborhood of Catete, has been marked for demolition by the City of Rio. The MAZE, founded by BBC correspondent Bob Nadkarni in 1981, has […]