For original post in Portuguese on Comitê Popular do Rio click here. After Rio’s City government asked Google to reduce the presence of favelas on the map of Rio de Janeiro, the word “favela” was […]
When I first thought about moving to Vidigal, the first and only concern of the few people that found it strange was: what about the drug traffickers? Since I knew the danger in this respect […]
For the original text in Portuguese by Léo Lima in Favela em Foco, click here. On the evening of April 4th 2013, around 9pm, in the area known as Beira do Rio in the favela […]
Clique aqui para Português “There’s a total lack of transparency on the part of the authorities with Colônia and its residents. We want answers,” asserts Juliana Moura Marques, resident of Colônia Juliano Moreira in Jacarepaguá […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 3 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 1 and Part 2. In Rio, the end of the 2000s brought a trickle of funding to a […]