For the original by Antônio Carlos Costa in Portuguese on the Rio de Paz Facebook page click here. Many people are cheering for Brazil not to be knocked out of this World Cup. Who are they? […]
Clique aqui para Português On June 23, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the police operation in Maré which killed ten people, a demonstration took place starting in the Chapéu-Mangueira favela in Rio’s South Zone. […]
The soccer matches of the People’s Cup final began around midday on Sunday June 8 at the top of Morro do Pinto in the Port Region of Central Rio. The People’s Cup is a soccer tournament of participants whose rights […]
Clique aqui para Português The Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpíadas do Rio de Janeiro (Rio Popular Committee on the World Cup and Olympics), just published its third Mega-Events and Human Rights Violations Dossier. The 173-page report […]
Few would have imagined in 2007, when Brazil won its bid to host the World Cup, that the controversy surrounding use of public money, corruption and militarization would have unfolded as it did. A Fifa […]