Clique aqui para Português Irenaldo Honório da Silva, president of the Pica-Pau Residents’ Association, is at a loss. The small favela where he has led community organizing efforts for over twenty years, slightly north of […]
Yaara Bou Melhem* took Dateline, Australia’s most respected international current affairs program, to Rio de Janeiro to document the impacts of the city’s preparations for these mega-events on favela residents. The story was broadcast nationwide […]
On Thursday morning, April 11th, approximately 400 protesters representing various social and political movements marched from Largo do Machado to the Palácio Guanabara in Laranjeiras to demonstrate against the privatization of Rio’s historic Maracanã stadium. […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 3 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 1 and Part 2. In Rio, the end of the 2000s brought a trickle of funding to a […]
For the original report by Alessandro Lo-Bianco in O Dia in Portuguese click here. Inaugurated less than a year ago, and the apple of Mayor Eduardo Paes’ eye, the neighborhood receives families evicted from many […]