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A Year of Violent Tragedy Through Human Stories: 2017 in Complexo do Alemão

By Alejandra S. Inzunza, José Luis Pardo • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • January 3, 2018

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Alejandra S. Inzunza and José Luis Pardo published by investigative news agency Agência Pública click here. From the grandmother who can’t fetch her grandkids from […]

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Entering and Exiting Complexo do Alemão in Times of Violence and State Bankruptcy

By Tânia de Oliveira • Translation by Melinda Gurr • November 23, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On November 14, 2017, the BRICS Policy Center launched the publication, Nobody Enters, Nobody Leaves—Urban Mobility and the Right to the City in Complexo do Alemão, the result of a partnership between […]

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Racism Keeps Getting Worse, All in the Name of Defending Capital

By Thainã de Medeiros • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • October 2, 2017

Clique aqui para Português The scene was Rio de Janeiro, the month was July and Black July was underway—an event that held meetings across the city to discuss racism in its different forms. Meanwhile, in […]

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Favela Youth Launch ‘Movimentos’ Platform, Take Role as Protagonists in Drug Policy Discussion

By Luiza Sansão • Translation by Ava Rose Hoffman • September 8, 2017

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Luiza Sansão in Portuguese published by Ponte Jornalismo click here. Resulting from a year’s work with the support of specialists in public security and drugs, the project […]

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Alemão Collective Creates Shootings and Celebration Calendars in Response to Police Violence

By Chloe Villalobos • June 26, 2017

Clique aqui para Português On June 2, Coletivo Papo Reto, an independent youth media collective from Complexo do Alemão in Rio’s North Zone, created two complementary resistance calendars as a response to the heavy police violence the community […]

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