Clique aqui para Português At the beginning of Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio, journalist Misha Glenny recalls a tour he took of Rocinha, Rio’s largest single favela, in 2007. During the tour, […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Tiago Dantas and Márcio Menasce published in O Globo click here. Five years after the first Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV, or My House My […]
This is the second of a three-part series on the language spoken in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro. Don’t miss Part 1 and Part 2. In Rio de Janeiro, dominant representations in the media and […]
Every Saturday, José Fernando Silva gathers young people in Orlando Leite public park in Cascadura, a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, to play soccer. Silva has been doing this for 15 years. What began […]
Clique aqui para Português The original text was published in Portuguese by community reporter and activist Raull Santiago, on his Facebook page following the announcement that the UPP police will set up armored police stations from which they […]