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Cerro-Corá Residents Protest for Favela Rights

By Benjamin Parkin • February 26, 2014

Clique aqui para Português On Sunday February 22, some 20 activists gathered in Praça São Judas Tadeu, outside the bondinho (tram) station leading up to the Christ the Redeemer statue, in Rio’s leafy Cosme Velho […]

Interviews & Profiles

Meet Luiz Soares, Social Mediator of the Manguinhos Park Library

By Benjamin Parkin • Translation by Kayla Boisvert • February 22, 2014

Clique aqui para Português José Luiz da Silva Soares, known as Luiz Soares, is the Social Mediator at the Manguinhos Park Library. Luiz is 41 years old, was born in Tijuca, and lived in various […]

#GentrificationWatch

Resident Report: Gentrification Underway in Vidigal

By Rosa Batista • Translation by Emma Platais • January 22, 2014

Clique aqui para Português From Ipanema beach, I saw the hill that not many Cariocas or I had climbed. It was 2006 and I needed to live near my workplace, the aforementioned beach. Climbing the […]

#UPPWatch

Investment Funds in the UPPs: The Financial Speculation of Misery

By Lívia de Cássia Godoi Moraes • Translation by Margó Hufstetler • December 15, 2013

For the original by Lívia de Cássia Godoi Moraes in Portuguese in Brasil de Fato click here.  On the Rio de Janeiro state’s official website of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs),the justification for their creation is “for […]

Policies

What is the Role of a Neighborhood Association?

By Sílvia Noronha • Translation by Kayla Boisvert • October 21, 2013

Clique aqui para Português For the original by Sílvia Noronha in Portuguese in Maré de Notícias click here. The precariousness of public services in Maré sets the tone of the functions carried out by the neighborhood […]

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