Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in Agência de Notícias das Favelas, click here. This December, Cerro Corá, a favela located next to Christ the Redeemer in Rio’s South Zone, launched the Cerro Corá Community Library. […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in Viva Favela, click here. Every year, children between 6 and 12 years old, from Santa Marta favela in Botafogo in Rio’s South Zone, have a date […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in O Globo, click here. A Rio native documents memories of the favela where she was born. For her, the occupation of Vidigal by the middle class […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 1 in a five-part series documenting Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) Installations. Rio de Janeiro’s Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) program was initiated in late 2008; today units have been installed in 38 […]
For the original by Alessandro Lo-Bianco in Portuguese, published in O Globo, click here. An alley that stretches merely a meter wide in the Pavão-Pavãozinho favela set the stage for a controversy involving works of the Growth […]