Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, September 29, 17-year-old Eduardo Felipe Santos Victor was shot dead in the Providência favela, in the Port Region of Rio de Janeiro. The official report released by the Military […]
Clique aqui para Português Police brutality in Rio’s favelas triggered a new wave of outrage on social media this month. On September 8 at 11:30am a police raid in Manguinhos, in the North Zone of the […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese published in O Globo, click here. The score is being kept by a resident couple, to portray the reality of the community that has experienced the UPP police since […]
Clique aqui para Português Since winning the Olympic bid in 2009 and hosting the 2014 World Cup, the city of Rio de Janeiro has gone through immense urban transformations that have disrupted and changed the […]
Original article by Laura Bonilla, associate director of AFP Brazil, in French, also available in Spanish. Another sunny morning in Flamengo Park, an oasis of exuberant palm trees and chatty parrots facing the Guanabara Bay, where […]