Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, May 31, the Brazilian Senate approved Provisional Measure 759/2016 (MP 759), which deals with land regularization for rural, urban and Amazonian lands. It now moves ahead for presidential approval. The measure […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Cleber Araújo in Portuguese published by Agência de Notícias das Favelas click here. Criminalizing favela residents is much easier to do than to tarnish the image of […]
Clique aqui para Português As Rio de Janeiro becomes further engulfed in its financial crisis, the state’s education sector has been suffering major setbacks. To combat the possibility of bankruptcy, the state announced that as many […]
Clique aqui para Português The text below is a transcription of Raull Santiago’s live broadcast on Facebook on March 29, 2017 at 12:15pm. Santiago was featured in The New York Times Magazine in 2015. Good afternoon […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a four-part series on the social construction of favelas and the potential of favela tourism to break down negative stereotypes. One of the key perpetrators of creating […]