The international press has provided positive coverage for several recent City and State initiatives. The community policing units, or “UPPs” have been successfully installed thanks to a State program in 9 favelas, driving out drug […]
Since the threat of removal, community leaders were only invited to speak with the mayor after they led a demonstration with hundreds of protesters representing 20 communities outside City Hall in early March. Yet these […]
Zoom out from Copenhagen, away from Copacabana, and let’s take a stroll a few kilometers west of Copacabana, inside the city of Rio, in Barra da Tijuca, an area of the city once characterized by […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Sheila Jacob in Portuguese published by Núcleo Piratininga de Comunicação click here. Wednesday, February 10, 2010 — Around 200 people gathered in front of Rio’s city hall to […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Sheila Jacob in Portuguese published by Núcleo Piratininga de Comunicação click here. As we have recently reported, the Vila Autódromo community, located in Barra da Tijuca, a prime […]