For the original in Portuguese in O Cidadão click here. How would you react if you woke up at 6 in the morning and saw your house, built with your own hands, destroyed by a bulldozer? That’s what happened […]
Clique aqui para Português Up to 250 people are currently sheltered in the gymnasium of Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Church, near Rio de Janeiro’s international airport, over three months after being violently evicted from the abandoned […]
Two days after a nationwide police operation preemptively arrested several protesters in Rio, São Paulo, and Porto Alegre on trumped-up charges, approximately 500 people gathered for the morning march on the final day of the […]
More than 18 months after its completion, the cable car of Morro da Providência was finally launched Wednesday, July 2. Both Mayor Eduardo Paes and Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão were present at the opening ceremony. Cable […]
Clique aqui para Português On June 23, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the police operation in Maré which killed ten people, a demonstration took place starting in the Chapéu-Mangueira favela in Rio’s South Zone. […]