Clique aqui para Português On October 3 at 2pm, families protested at the doors of the Rio de Janeiro municipal government offices, demanding the social rent payments promised them following their eviction from urban occupations […]
Clique aqui para Português On the morning of September 19, a City demolition crew arrived in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone neighborhood of Canal do Anil without warning and forcefully removed 52 structures, almost all […]
Clique aqui para Português The Rio de Janeiro State government recently announced a new massive upgrading project for Rocinha, Rio’s largest single favela, located in the South Zone. The program, called Comunidade Cidade (Community City) was […]
Clique aqui para Português At 7:15am on Thursday, September 19, residents of Canal do Anil, a small favela located in the Jacarepaguá region of Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone, awoke to the sounds of chaos. […]
Clique aqui para Português Time goes by, and those in Rio de Janeiro’s government continue to insist upon announcing grand schemes for the favelas. This time it’s a “grand boulevard” in the South Zone favela […]