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 original article in Portuguese by Ricardo Nascimento in Jogo de Mandingo click here. A vision of the tropical paradise The city of Rio de Janeiro has always been the postcard image for Brazil. A […]
Clique aqui para Português “We are here today because the Prefeitura (City government) is putting psychological pressure [on the residents of Vila Autódromo],” explained Lucia Cerqueira, a representative of the Catholic Church community organizing group […]
For original post by community journalist Léo Lima in Portuguese on Favela em Foco, click here. Last Saturday afternoon, March 9th, people mobilized around the issues of housing and the Right to the City met […]
For the original article by Maíra Mathias, Raquel Júnia and Raquel Torres in Portuguese, click here. There was a community hampering Rio de Janeiro making itself beautiful for tourists coming to the 2014 World Cup and […]