“Are you coming to Jaca?” asked Raylton, a rapper from Cantagalo bouncing up and down on fellow hip hop artist Tigrin´s shoulders at the bottom of the South Zone favela in Ipanema last Thursday evening. […]
Last Thursday afternoon, minutes before the meeting of Cantagalo/Pavão-Pavãozinho residents and Sub-prosecutor general at the Court of Human Rights Leonardo Chaves regarding violence and abuses by UPP police officers, a loud dispute broke out on […]
Clique aqui para Português August 22, 2011—As I climbed Morro da Babilônia, up the Leme hillside overlooking Copacabana, I was taken aback by this community’s sheer beauty. Unlike many of the favelas here in Rio, […]
“É uma vista privilegiada,” – it’s a priviledged view – explains Cremilson Rosa de Oliveira as he sits atop his hostel in construction in the heart of Cantagalo, Rio’s 3rd oldest favela. The striking views […]
Officials from City Government and the Justice Department showed up at Ricelia Fernandes’ home in Pavão/Pavãozinho, a community in Copacabana, the heart of the South Zone, last Friday June 10th, 2011, at 5pm with a […]