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Mexico’s Caravana 43 Ends Latin American Tour With Memorable Days in Rio de Janeiro

By Elma Gonzalez • June 24, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Almost nine months after 43 Mexican students were abducted, three parents and a classmate of the 43 Normalistas visited Rio de Janeiro last week to conclude the Caravana 43 journey across South […]

Understanding Rio

Racial Silence in US Coverage of Charleston Shooting Mirrors Brazilian Media’s Treatment of White Criminals

By Gabriela Weldon • June 22, 2015

Clique aqui para Português When Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, allegedly killed nine African Americans at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on Wednesday, it took hours for national media to cover the story. The silence […]

Lélio Fernandes stands in front of his half-demolished house
#EvictionsWatch

New Demolitions in Metrô-Mangueira Leave Residents Desperate for Housing Rights [SLIDESHOW]

By Sarah Jacobs • June 21, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On May 28, Lélio Fernandes ran home from his supermarket job to watch City workers demolish half of his house. He opened a door on the second-floor–where a bedroom and a toilet […]

#EvictionsWatch

Rio Announces Participatory Housing in the Port Area

By Katja Majcen • June 20, 2015

A public hearing on a plan for social housing in the Port region of Rio de Janeiro took place on Wednesday June 10. Housing Secretary Carlos Portinho introduced the meeting as a “point of departure from […]

#UPPWatch

“The Trigger”: Film Depicts the Disappearance and Death of Amarildo de Souza [FILM REVIEW]

By Sarah Jacobs • June 18, 2015

Clique aqui para Português The case of Amarildo de Souza, the bricklayer who was tortured to death by the Military Police in Rocinha in 2013, made waves across Brazil and abroad. His death became a symbol […]

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