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Resident of Morro do Salgueiro, in São Gonçalo (RJ), 14-year-old Black Youth Shot Inside Relative’s House

By Leonardo Coelho • Translation by Edmund Ruge • May 21, 2020

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Leonardo Coelho published in Ponte Jornalismo click here.  The teen João Pedro Matos Pinto, 14 years old, was killed with a shot to the […]

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Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense Region Through the Eyes of Five Local Researchers

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Ben Bildsten • March 4, 2020

Clique aqui para Português What can academic production from a region like Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense tell us about the region itself? What concerns are born among young Baixada researchers and what do […]

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Rocinha College Entrance Exam Prep Course, ‘Só Cria,’ Sends First Student to University

By Fernanda Gomes • Translation by Sharon Gogar • March 2, 2020

Clique aqui para Português Launched in May 2019, Só Cria (Born and Raised), a community-based college entrance exam course in the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone, is free of charge and serves the […]

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One Month Later, Water Crisis Continues to Punish Rio de Janeiro Peripheries

By Pauline Beaumont, Sofia Bazin • February 11, 2020

As political appointees rush to explain themselves, worries of privatization linger among community activists. January 3, under a smashing summer sun, with temperatures exceeding 35°C (95°F), residents of the Baixada Fluminense, as well as the […]

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Rio de Janeiro’s Water Crisis is Necropolitics from the Faucet

By Juliana Gonçalves • Translation by Laura Bachmann • February 6, 2020

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Juliana Gonçalves published by The Intercept Brasil click here. Necropolitics doesn’t just happen when Governor Wilson Witzel says to shoot people in their little […]

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