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Paraty’s Trindade Traditional Fishing Community Demands Justice for Murder of Youth in Land Dispute

By Claire Lepercq, Daniel Gross • July 26, 2016

Clique aqui para Português In a public hearing on Friday July 22, residents of Trindade, a small beachside community in the municipality of Paraty in southern Rio de Janeiro State, demanded justice for the killing […]

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City Breaks Agreement, Leaving Residents Evicted for Olympics in Debt

By Jessica Mota • Translation by Sheila Taylor • July 26, 2016

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Jessica Mota in Portuguese published by Agência Pública click here. Residents of the West Zone resettled through the Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) federal housing program are receiving unauthorized charges […]

#Rio2016

Olympic Projects and Destruction: Ramos Left Without Public Spaces, Sidewalks, Trees and More

By Hugo Costa • Translation by Christopher Owens • July 22, 2016

Clique aqui para Português The TransCarioca Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line–an Olympic Project inaugurated two years ago–has left a trail of destruction and abandonment in the traditional neighborhood of Ramos in the Leopoldina Zone in the North […]

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Black Lives Matter Movement Begins Four Day Visit to Rio de Janeiro

By Mariah Barber • July 21, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Wednesday, July 20 marked the first day of the Black Lives Matter movement’s four-day visit to Rio de Janeiro, as part of Julho Negro or Black July. The first day of the visit […]

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“Our Torch” Demonstration Calls Attention to Intensifying Violence in Alemão Ahead of Olympics

By Ava Rose Hoffman • July 20, 2016

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday July 16 activists and residents of Complexo do Alemão in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone participated in a peaceful demonstration to denounce violence—which has escalated in recent months in […]

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