Clique aqui para Português Click here for original Portuguese Opinion piece by Itamar Silva in O Dia. It is hard to contain water flowing downwards, smoke rising, and the tourist invasion of pacified favelas. Something must be done to […]
Clique aqui para Português “Money! Money! Your house!”-That’s how Vilma Cristina Ribeiro, 43 and a lifelong Vidigal resident, says foreign investors approach her as they come into Carlos Duque Street, located in the upper part of […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Francisco Valdean in Portuguese published by O Cotidiano click here. On July 25th, residents living at the summit of the Santa Marta favela, known as “Pico do Morro” […]
Brazil’s first favela, Morro da Providência (Providence Hill), was built by veterans of the Canudos War. Thousands of soldiers flocked to Rio when the war ended in 1897, because the government had offered them housing in […]
Visitors arriving in Rio de Janeiro are greeted not by Copacabana or Christ the Redeemer, as the postcards suggest, but by a white church perched atop a domed hill. It is the first landmark visible […]