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Hunger Is a Feminine Noun, Part 2: Greater Rio’s Japeri Municipality in Chaos

By Elvira Lobato • Translation by Tara Mittelberg • July 5, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Elvira Lobato published by Agência Pública click here for the series and here for the article. Angelina Nunes and Claudia Lima contributed reporting. Photographs […]

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Hunger Is a Feminine Noun, Part 1: Sleeping to Forget Hunger

By Elvira Lobato • Translation by Tara Mittelberg • June 25, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Elvira Lobato published by Agência Pública click here and here. Angelina Nunes, Claudia Lima, and Cristina Alves contributed reporting. Photographs by Ana Lúcia Araújo. […]

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Careless Journalism and the Daily ‘Scare’ [OPINION]

By Mariana Assis • Translation by Habib Msallem • June 13, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Mariana Assis published by Voz das Comunidades click here. I’ve always been fascinated by words. Very much because of this, I made them my […]

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My Greatest Achievement: Staying Alive [OPINION]

By Edu Carvalho • Translation by Sharon Gogar • June 11, 2019

Clique aqui para Português  For the original article in Portuguese by Edu Carvalho published by Nexo Jornal click here. For my birthday, what I really wanted was something far beyond me: the chance for my […]

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The Psychological Effects of Falling Asleep and Waking Up to the Sound of Gunshots

By Luís Eduardo Macedo • Translation by Dylan Blau Edelstein • May 29, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Luís Eduardo Macedo published by Agência de Notícias das Favelas click here. The suffering of the most vulnerable segment of society, most impacted by […]

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