Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and is also part of RioOnWatch’s #VoicesFromSocialMedia series, which compiles perspectives posted on social media by favela residents and […]
Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article about Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. The pile of furniture on the sidewalk started to form around 8:30am, when the Military Police arrived to […]
Clique aqui para Português The Lagoa-Barra Expressway separates the favela of Rocinha, located in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone, from the adjacent, wealthy neighborhood of São Conrado. The noisy two-lane motorway begins in the Miami-like […]
Clique aqui para Português On February 29, the carnival bloco “Bless Yourself, It’ll All Work Out” paraded through the streets of Complexo da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone. The cloudy day did not […]
Clique aqui para Português Launched in 2009 in the lead up to the 2016 Olympic Games, Porto Maravilha (Marvelous Port) is the largest urban redevelopment program in recent decades in Rio de Janeiro. Described as an […]