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Covid-19: City of Rio Presents Higher Case Fatality Rate Than Brazil and World

By PH de Noronha • Translation by Julio Santos Filho • September 8, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. Click here for the original article published in Portuguese, by PH de Noronha on the site of Brazil’s national […]

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Ana Paula Oliveira: ‘Our Struggle has Grown. We have to Seek, in Every Way, to Stay Alive’ [INTERVIEW]

By Nina Zur • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • August 20, 2020

Clique aqui para Português For the original interview in Portuguese by Nina Zur in Medium, click here. This is our latest article on Covid-19 as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. The following conversation I […]

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High Lethality and Inexplicably Low Case Numbers Cast Doubt on Covid-19 Data in Rio’s Favelas

By Rafael Galdo • Translation by Julio Santos Filho • August 17, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. For the original article published in Portuguese by Rafael Galdo in O Globo, click here.  In Complexo do Alemão, […]

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Coronavirus: If It Were a Country, Rio Would Have the World’s Second-Highest Mortality Rate

By Lucas Altino • Translation by Clau Guimarães • August 8, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. For the original article in Portuguese by Lucas Altino published in O Globo, click here. On July 1, the […]

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How the Pandemic Exposes the Housing Crisis in Brazil

By Juliana Domingos de Lima • Translation by Carolyn Oliveira • August 7, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. For the original article published in Portuguese by Juliana Domingos de Lima published by Nexo, click here.  Repossessions […]

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