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Panel Debates Forced Evictions and Urban Reform in the Olympic City

By Sergio Saenz • May 20, 2015

On Wednesday May 13 the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) hosted a panel featuring Lucas Faulhaber (right, in the photo above), Maria de Lourdes Lopes (center left), and Guilherme Boulos (left) to discuss the […]

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“The Olympics Serve to Legitimize Evictions”

By Bruno Porpetta • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • May 18, 2015

For the original in Portuguese with video, by Bruno Porpetta, published in Brasil de Fato and Brasil247, click here. Architect Lucas Faulhaber and journalist Lena Azevedo have launched a book that documents the history of arbitrary evictions in […]

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Five Years After Tragedy: Rain, Memories and Fear in Morro do Bumba, Niterói

By Gustavo Maia • Translation by Margó Hufstetler • April 22, 2015

For the original in Portuguese with video, by Gustavo Maia, published in UOL Notícias, click here. It rained for a few hours on the morning of Tuesday April 7. While looking at the cloudy sky from her porch […]

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MCMV Public Housing is a Target for Organized Crime

By Luã Marinatto, Rafael Soares • Translation by Cara D’Rosario • April 10, 2015

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 […]

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400 People Forcibly Removed from CEDAE Building in Santo Cristo

By Christine Wilkes, Nicole Froio • April 5, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Around 400 people were removed from the State Water and Sewerage Company (CEDAE) building in Santo Cristo on Wednesday March 25. The occupants had been living in the building for 15 days. According […]

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