Clique aqui para Português When Maria do Socorro, 39, comes home with her five-year-old son Alejandro, she leaves his wheelchair at a friend’s house nearby and carries him home in her arms. To get to her […]
Clique aqui para Português With municipal elections fast approaching, Rio voters need to choose from the 11 candidates running for mayor. Despite very different proposals, the challenges facing the post-Olympics city management are the same for everyone, […]
Clique aqui para Português The six month-long suspension of Complexo do Alemão’s cable car was announced on September 14, in between unrelenting police operations in the North Zone favela complex. The cable car will not […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first article of our three-part series on the Solidarity Economy in Brazil. When one stops to consider Rio’s hundreds of favelas for their plurality, with a lens of […]
Clique aqui para Português The notion that the working poor do not pay their fair share of taxes remains a common and enduring talking point amongst conservatives around the world. Here in Brazil, this stigma […]