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 […]
Residents of Vila União de Curicica, a West Zone neighborhood about 1km from the future Olympic site that is being threatened with one of the largest evictions yet announced for the 2016 Olympics, have been […]
Clique aqui para Português Rio de Janeiro is increasingly investing in its museum infrastructure, with three new world class museums launched or programed in recent years; the Rio Museum of Art opened in 2013, in […]
Clique aqui para Português Since the decision of the Federal Minister of the Environment, Izabella Teixera, in May last year to redefine the limits of Rio’s Botanical Gardens and remove 520 families from Horto, residents have actively […]
For the original in Portuguese in O Dia click here. Uproar as the first repossessions commence in the area disputed by 621 families. Rio–The Brazilian Federal Government may reconsider the issue of occupation in the Jardim Botânico […]