Clique aqui para Português Marcelo Crivella, 59, has a varied professional background. He’s been a taxi driver, evangelical bishop, minister of fisheries, gospel recording artist, senator, engineer, missionary in Africa and book author. Now he is in […]
Clique aqui para Português Residents of the lush and peaceful Horto favela in the South Zone neighborhood of Jardim Botânico are organizing resistance efforts in response to a decision by the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) authorizing […]
Clique aqui para Português There was a project for Rio, an Olympic project, with an international consultancy hired to show how to apply Barcelona’s Olympic Legacy model, highly referenced around the world as an example […]
The October 2 municipal elections produced exciting results for Rio de Janeiro’s City Council. Several candidates featured in the multiparty campaign Vereadores Que Queremos (City Councillors We Want) were elected to office, including two favela-born candidates, Marielle […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first in a five-part series titled Housing Policy Lessons from Rio’s Favelas. We hope this series will inform debates on housing and favela upgrading and that Rio’s new mayor, Marcelo […]