Clique aqui para Português Following last month’s reconfiguration of the Federal Planning Ministry following President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, questions regarding the status of uncompleted infrastructure projects funded under her administration remain unanswered. Within a day of […]
Clique aqui para Português On May 31, engineering students from Columbia University and COPPE UFRJ (Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia) presented design prototypes from the COPPE-Columbia Open Innovation Day Design Challenge […]
Clique aqui para Português In two months time, the eyes of the world will be firmly fixed on Rio de Janeiro, and the municipal government has spent the last seven years and billions of reais getting the […]
May brought intensified mainstream media coverage to Rio’s favelas focused on the recent uptick in violence across the city, but significant social policy changes and ongoing struggles for housing and education rights were important stories […]
Clique aqui para Português Little Africa, Pequena África in Portuguese, is an area in the Port Region of Rio de Janeiro that has historically been home to a strong Afro-Brazilian community. The area became known as Little Africa following […]