Clique aqui para Português From Ipanema beach, I saw the hill that not many Cariocas or I had climbed. It was 2006 and I needed to live near my workplace, the aforementioned beach. Climbing the […]
For the original by Davison Coutinho in Portuguese in Jornal do Brasil click here. A community abandoned by the public sector for decades, dominated by drug trafficking, under pressure and oppressed for a lifetime. Suddenly, the dream […]
Clique aqui para Português The injunction that froze the Morar Carioca construction projects in Providência (the site of an intense battle over forced evictions on the site of Rio’s first, and most historic, favela) was […]
When I first thought about moving to Vidigal, the first and only concern of the few people that found it strange was: what about the drug traffickers? Since I knew the danger in this respect […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the story of my family from Morro da Providência. Despite the city’s repeated interference, we have managed to stay in the same place since we arrived here. And so […]