Mariana Albanese – Page 2

Vidigal: One Year After the Occupation

By Mariana Albanese • Translation by Lee Weingast • November 13, 2012

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by community journalist Mariana Albanese in Portuguese for Vidiga! click here. One year ago was a decisive moment in our history. Late Saturday night, November 13, 2011, Vidigal […]

Beltrame: “Vidigal Now Exists”

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese click here. An evolving project, one that will not solve all of Rio’s problems, much less from one day to the next. This is the […]

Gentrifying the ‘Slave Quarters’

By Mariana Albanese • Translation by Juliana M. de Souza • May 11, 2012

I edit a blog about Vidigal, Vidiga!. For some time I’ve been walking through the favela and hearing about the construction of a small luxury hotel, more precisely in the spectacular viewpoint area of Arvrão, and […]