Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, October, 9, around 150 people gathered at the entrance of Morro dos Prazeres favela in Central Rio to protest the wrongful detention of Willian Preciliano Bezerra da Silva. Two months […]
Clique aqui para Português Brazil is among the 30 countries with the highest rates of gun ownership in the world—and this is only counting legal firearms. Brazil, thus, is already an armed country. Those who are […]
Clique aqui para Português Willian Preciliano is a young 21-year-old man from Morro dos Prazeres, a favela above Rio’s historic Santa Teresa neighborhood. In July, he finished high school and his parents gave him the […]
Clique aqui para Português When I enrolled in the Public Security and Favela Epistemology course—which took place in several favelas in Rio from April 28 to June 6—I didn’t yet understand the scope of the […]
Clique aqui para Português For over two centuries, presiding political, academic, and cultural authorities have classified low-income urban neighborhoods as “slums.” The history of this term and the communities on which it has been imposed extends […]