Clique aqui para Português At age 64, Vanderley da Cunha, known as Deley de Acari, has been a poet, writer, human rights activist, and cultural mobilizer in the Acari favela, in the North Zone of […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Rafael Soares published by Extra click here. Laura Ramos de Azevedo, 36, has lung cancer, now reaching her bones and brain. After being hospitalized in February […]
Clique aqui para Português Favela Tem Memória (Favelas Have Memory) is an exhibition by the NGO Viva Rio that explores the history of 12 favelas situated along Rio’s metro lines. The exhibition opened on February 29, at the Pavuna metro […]
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 […]
For the original in Portuguese by Luã Marinatto e Rafael Soares, published in EXTRA, click here. Rio’s Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) public housing is designed to house the poorest families—known as Band 1 financing—but are also targets for […]