Clique aqui para Português On Thursday July 9, the Port Urban Development Company (CDURP) of Rio de Janeiro held the last meeting in the series of weekly thematic sessions on the elaboration of a public […]
Clique aqui para Português Vila Autódromo, in Rio’s West Zone, is under extreme pressure of evictions from the City in preparation for the 2016 Olympics. Most residents have left, selling their houses to the City or exchanging them for […]
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 […]
For the original in Portuguese by Vladimir Platonow, published in Agência Brasil, click here. Nearly a week after the confrontation between residents of Vila Autódromo and municipal guards in Jacarepaguá, near the future Olympic Village, […]
“My name is Pedro. Today is May 20, 2015. The City, with this bulldozer here, knocked down part of my house.” Pedro Henrique Berto arrived home to Vila Autódromo from work one Wednesday to an unexpected surprise: […]