Clique aqui para Português On October 3 at 2pm, families protested at the doors of the Rio de Janeiro municipal government offices, demanding the social rent payments promised them following their eviction from urban occupations […]
Clique aqui para Português At 7:15am on Thursday, September 19, residents of Canal do Anil, a small favela located in the Jacarepaguá region of Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone, awoke to the sounds of chaos. […]
Clique aqui para Português Time goes by, and those in Rio de Janeiro’s government continue to insist upon announcing grand schemes for the favelas. This time it’s a “grand boulevard” in the South Zone favela […]
Clique aqui para Português Prior to 2010, residents of centrally-located Metrô-Mangueira in Rio’s inner North Zone were approached by government workers—allegedly to sign up those in need for Bolsa Família, a government conditional cash transfer […]
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, April 17, the Cities–Urban Research Nucleus at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), publishing house Appris, and researcher Alexandre Magalhães organized a panel debate to discuss “What […]