Clique aqui para Português Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, 9am–Four years to the month after they discovered their community was a target for eviction in name of the 2016 Rio Olympics, a coalition of residents of […]
Calls for FIFA-standard hospitals and public health care have been universal in the Brazilian protests and it is indeed imperative for improved health services to be among the central demands. More than any economic benchmark, […]
Clique aqui para Português August 9, 2013–In a meeting today, the second in one week with residents and supporters of the community, Mayor Eduardo Paes agreed to the permanence of Vila Autódromo, a favela that […]
For the original article by Francisco Alves Filho in Portuguese in O Dia click here. A representative of the group that became famous for its live broadcasts of the demonstrations evaluates acts in Rio and […]
For the original by Jamil Chade in Portuguese in Estado de São Paulo click here. Pope Francis attacked the strategy of “pacification” used in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, warning that until social inequality is resolved, […]