Clique aqui para Português The TransCarioca Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line–an Olympic Project inaugurated two years ago–has left a trail of destruction and abandonment in the traditional neighborhood of Ramos in the Leopoldina Zone in the North […]
Clique aqui para Português ”It’s like we’re throwing a party in our house where the whole world is invited, but we the owners can’t be in the way.” That’s how community leader Carlos Alberta Costa, […]
Clique aqui para Português “When you are fighting for your house, and your most basic needs–like safety and public health–trees are left behind. To talk to the City about the trees… I left it for last. But […]
Clique aqui para Português The Rio that bid for the 2016 Olympics and then reveled in its 2009 campaign victory was not shy of dreaming big. Among other commitments, the city planned to transform city-wide […]
For the original in Portuguese, by Maria Eduarda Chagas, published in Estadão, click here. In the pre-Olympics period, 67,000 people were forced to leave their homes, more than were evicted under both Pereira Passos and Lacerda administrations–those most […]