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 […]
Clique aqui para Português When following the news of political tumult coming out of Brasília this year, many international observers have likely found themselves struggling to wade through a sea of acronyms. This is because […]
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 […]