Clique aqui para Português On Sunday, June 30, the third edition of the Maré Cheia Slam poetry battle took place at the Parque União Skate Park in the Complexo da Maré favelas, in Rio’s North Zone. […]
Clique aqui para Português Prior to 2010, residents of centrally-located Metrô-Mangueira in Rio’s inner North Zone were approached by government workers—allegedly to sign up those in need for Bolsa Família, a government conditional cash transfer […]
Clique aqui para Português “The idea of universities for everyone doesn’t exist… Universities should be reserved for the intellectual elite.” These are the words of Brazil’s recently dismissed Minister of Education Ricardo Vélez-Rodriguez, spoken in […]
On Tuesday, June 18, a seminar titled “Activist Experiences from Brazil and the Global South” was held at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) in Niterói. The day-long event focused on ways in which countries of […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Elvira Lobato published by Agência Pública click here for the series and here for the article. Angelina Nunes and Claudia Lima contributed reporting. Photographs […]