Clique aqui para Português The Comitê Popular da Copa e Olimpíadas do Rio de Janeiro (Rio Popular Committee on the World Cup and Olympics), just published its third Mega-Events and Human Rights Violations Dossier. The 173-page report […]
For the original by Beatriz Lindolfo in Portuguese in Maré de Notícias click here. Traffic in Rio de Janeiro isn’t easy for anyone. Maré de Notícias went to the bus and van stops, in both directions, […]
Clique aqui para Português In a country that has seen the number of cars more than double in the last decade, and in what is now Brazil’s most congested city, Rio de Janeiro’s four planned BRT (Bus […]
Land in Recreio was not utilized after evictions took place there in 2011 to make way for construction of the Transoeste BRT line. For the original in Portuguese on the site for the Popular Committee on the World […]
For the original by Wilson Tosta in Portuguese for O Estado de São Paulo click here. Lack of government plans allows contractors, real estate developers, and bus companies to act as they wish, say experts. RIO–No […]