Clique aqui para Português Last Wednesday October 15 started early for Faveleira, a cultural activism organization based in the Acari favela in Rio’s North Zone. By 10 am, group leaders were mopping floors, decorating walls and […]
Two young men are reported to have been killed on Sunday in Fazendinha, Complexo do Alemão, North Zone—only one day after activists expressed their frustration with the area’s excessive violence in a March for Peace demonstration […]
A screening of À Queima Roupa (At Point-Blank), followed by a debate on police violence, was part of Rio International Film Festivel 2014 on Friday September 26. The documentary produced and directed by Theresa Jessouroun is an investigation […]
A 17-year-old student was shot dead in Complexo do Alemão on Saturday September 27. According to witnesses, Marcos Heleno was shot by police and was left to agonize on the sidewalk until the ambulance arrived […]
For the original in Portuguese by Jorge Antonio Barros published in O Globo, click here. Misconduct, all too common among the troops, cannot be swept under the rug in the favelas, where residents are tired of being oppressed between […]