Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Raquel Rolnik in Portuguese published by Yahoo! News click here. Last month the process to impeach President Dilma Rousseff was confirmed by the Senate and, on the same day, ministers from […]
On Saturday, May 28, residents of Vidigal favela in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone gathered to bid farewell to local artist Wilson Alexandre. After ten years of transforming a 600 square meter overgrown abandoned site into a vibrant […]
Clique aqui para Português Built to house the residents removed from Vila Autódromo and costing R$105 million (US$30 million), Parque Carioca has been used extensively by Mayor Eduardo Paes’ administration as a model example of the Minha […]
Clique aqui para Português “When you are fighting for your house, and your most basic needs–like safety and public health–trees are left behind. To talk to the City about the trees… I left it for last. But […]
Clique aqui para Português The brutal gang rape of a 16 year old girl by 33 men in a favela in Santa Cruz in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro has generated widespread horror […]