Clique aqui para Português The New Blacks Institute (Instituto Pretos Novos, or IPN), a museum in Rio’s Port Region hosting the largest slave cemetery in the Americas and one of the main sites preserving the city’s legacy as […]
Clique aqui para Português In the favela where I live, the government spends thousands of reais for the Military Police to come in with war tanks and heavy weaponry. Who cares if stray bullets kill innocent people? […]
Clique aqui para Português When Pollyana de Oliveira, 28, gave birth to her third child, she had no idea that something might be wrong. Neither did she have any problems during her pregnancy, nor any […]
Clique aqui para Português In 1996, Merced Guimarães and her husband Petrucio made a chilling discovery in their new home during an extensive renovation project: workers excavating in the soil beneath their house in the […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Karine Ferreira in Portuguese published by Agência de Notícias da Favela click here. Times are tough in Morro da Providência, the oldest favela in Brazil. Just like in Complexo […]