Victims of the City government’s broken promises of housing in Complexo do Alemão spoke out at an event held in the community by Rio de Janeiro’s Public Defender’s Office on Saturday May 23. The Public Defender’s Office exists […]
For the original in Portuguese by Ruben Berta, published in O Globo, click here. Surrounded by rubble, approximately 170 families are still living in the community neighboring the Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca. RIO–The story of […]
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 […]
Clique aqui para Português Nearly 100 residents crowded onto a third floor veranda in Vila União de Curicica on Wednesday night to discuss their plan to resist eviction in the face of the TransOlímpica highway […]
Clique aqui para Português “O meu lugar, É cercado de luta e suor, Esperança num mundo melhor” “My place, It is surrounded by struggle and sweat, Hope for a better world” Maria do Socorro’s 14-year-old […]