Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Juliana Portella published in Viva Favela click here. City of God was the second community in Rio de Janeiro to receive a Pacifying Police Unit (UPP), in […]
Clique aqui para Português The body set up to investigate human rights violations of the military regime says the militarization of daily life and forced removals of residents are practices of the past that are […]
Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, January 19, Mayor Eduardo Paes took questions from an audience of around 80 people at OsteRio, an event organized by online magazine Vozerio and the Institute for the Study of […]
Clique aqui para Português The atmosphere was tense on the evening of Monday January 18 as nearly 30 people gathered in a circle in an abandoned hotel in the neighborhood of Santo Cristo in Rio’s Port Region. This […]
In our last article on rising temperatures in Rio de Janeiro, we discussed heat islands and the unequal distribution of extreme heat throughout the metropolitan area. Recently, Rio de Janeiro gained notoriety as the Latin American city that will be […]