Mário Lucas, 18, was brutally murdered by two plainclothes police officers in his own home in Morro da Fazendinha, in Complexo do Alemão on the morning of November 26, 2012. Two days later, a curfew […]
Clique aqui para Português If hills could speak, Morro do Tuiuti (Tuiuti Hill) would have a lot to say. It has borne witness to many of Rio de Janeiro’s key physical and social transformations over […]
For the original by Jamil Chade in Portuguese in Estado de São Paulo click here. Pope Francis attacked the strategy of “pacification” used in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, warning that until social inequality is resolved, […]
Clique aqui para Português For the community of Varginha in Complexo de Manguinhos, a complex of favelas in Rio’s North Zone, the imminent visit of Pope Francis this week is a great honor. Pope Francis is […]
For the original by Fabíola Gerbase in Portuguese on O Globo click here. One of the founders of Observatório de Favelas (Favela Observatory) in Maré, the geographer, educator and social activist Jailson de Souza e Silva […]