Clique aqui para Português On August 5, 2016, the Olympic Games began in Rio de Janeiro. As teargas choked protesting activists outside Maracanã Stadium, a tiny fraction of the original residents of Vila Autódromo were busy moving into […]
Clique aqui para Português As of 2015, the City of Rio’s own data showed that 22,059 families (an estimated 77,000 individuals) across the city had been evicted from their homes since 2009, whether in the […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the final article in a five-part series on community museums and resistance in Rio’s favelas in honor of Brazil’s 16th Annual Museum Week (May 16-20, 2018). “Evictions don’t just remove people, they […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Thursday, January 26, Vila Autódromo residents visited Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall to deliver an official letter requesting a meeting with the city’s new mayor, Marcelo Crivella, to discuss the second […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Eduardo Sá in Portuguese published by Fazendo Media click here. Various studies and specialists have declared that the last decade was the period during which the most people were evicted from their […]