Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese by Claudia Antunes published in Vozerio click here. The construction of subsidized housing for low-income families in the Port Region of Rio de Janeiro has been […]
For the original in Portuguese in O Cidadão click here. How would you react if you woke up at 6 in the morning and saw your house, built with your own hands, destroyed by a bulldozer? That’s what happened […]
Clique aqui para Português Nestled high up on Alvorada hill, right below a portion of Complexo do Alemão’s photogenic but controversial cable car, Barraco #55 is a community-oriented center for arts and research. As well as […]
Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday morning, December 3rd, the Municipal Legislative Chamber filled with approximately one hundred people–favela residents, public defenders, professors, and human rights advocates–eager to participate in the public hearing on “Removals […]
Clique aqui para Português Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, 9am–Four years to the month after they discovered their community was a target for eviction in name of the 2016 Rio Olympics, a coalition of residents of […]