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Police Officer Threatens Boy: ‘Killing Your Brother Was a Job Well Done. Grow Up So I Can Kill You Too’

By Leonardo Coelho • Translation by Habib Msallem • February 14, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Leonardo Coelho published by Ponte Jornalismo click here. Military Police officer threatened eight-year-old boy during operation that left thirteen dead in Rio de Janeiro; mother […]

#EvictionsWatch

Called ‘Invaders,’ Century-Old Trapicheiros Favela Mobilizes to Shift Narrative and Affirm Rights

By Tyler Strobl • February 12, 2019

Clique aqui para Português In early October 2018, residents of Trapicheiros—a small favela of 52 families situated near Salgueiro in Tijuca, in the North Zone of Rio—began receiving messages of harassment from strangers on the Internet. […]

by Community Contributors

Collection of ‘Street Corner Poetry’ Launched in Rio de Janeiro’s City of God

By Jota Marques, Letícia Lemos • Translation by Cheyne Bull • February 7, 2019

Clique aqui para Português “Art is salvation? And then what?” challenges Deborah Fadiga in her poem “Art is Salvation!” The poem appears on page 53 of Street Corner Poetry: Collection Volume 0, a 242-page book that […]

#MarielleLegacy

The Path to Black, Female, Favela Representation in the Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly

By Renata Queiroz Ramos • Translation by Ava Rose Hoffman • January 31, 2019

Clique aqui para Português In the 2018 Brazilian general election, voters elected officials at the federal and state levels (president, federal deputies, senators, governors, and state deputies). Among the state deputies elected in Rio de Janeiro are […]

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Anything but ‘Urban Garbage’: Indigenous Resistance, Survival, and Resurgence in Rio de Janeiro

By Désirée Poets • January 12, 2019

Clique aqui para Português On January 4, O Globo reported on the assertion by state representative Rodrigo Amorim (of the far-right Brazilian Social Liberal Party–PSL) that Aldeia Maracanã—an urban indigenous community (aldeia means “village”) in Rio de Janeiro—is […]

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