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Five Years After Tragedy: Rain, Memories and Fear in Morro do Bumba, Niterói

By Gustavo Maia • Translation by Margó Hufstetler • April 22, 2015

For the original in Portuguese with video, by Gustavo Maia, published in UOL Notícias, click here. It rained for a few hours on the morning of Tuesday April 7. While looking at the cloudy sky from her porch […]

#UPPWatch

Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) Installations Part 3: 2012

By Patrick Ashcroft • March 24, 2015

Clique aqui para Português This is Part 3 in a five-part series documenting Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) Installations. Head of the UPP, Frederico Caldas, admitted in an interview with BBC Brasil that the next phase of […]

Chauan Cezário, one of the Military Police victims, in a Rio police station. Photo by Urbano Erbiste/O Globo
#CommunityMedia

Posthumous Innocence Thanks to Mobile-Recorded Video

By Afonso Benites • Translation by Cara D’Rosario • February 28, 2015

Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, published in El País, click here. The Military Police said the youth shot at the officers but the video recorded by the victim contradicts this version of events. […]

#UPPWatch

Debate Reflects on Rio’s Pacifying Police Units

By Ian Waldron • November 22, 2014

In 2008 the Rio City government began the ambitious project of installing Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) in many of its favelas, today almost 40 in total. Six years later the program continues to be highly controversial. […]

#GentrificationWatch

Occupation in São Gonçalo Gathers 1,400 People in Four Days

By Henrique Coelho • Translation by Amanda Bradshaw • November 10, 2014

For the original by Henrique Coelho in Portuguese, published in G1, click here. On Tuesday November 4, more than 350 families completed their fourth day of occupation of a 60,000m² area in São Gonçalo, located in the […]

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