Clique aqui para Português Set with the task of hosting World Cup Games and the 2016 Olympics in the span of two years, Rio de Janeiro’s Mayor Eduardo Paes has invested billions of reais in a wide range […]
For the original in Portuguese, by Maria Eduarda Chagas, published in Estadão, click here. In the pre-Olympics period, 67,000 people were forced to leave their homes, more than were evicted under both Pereira Passos and Lacerda administrations–those most […]
Since the period of transition from military dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s and 80s, Rio de Janeiro’s reputation for social, political and spatial division has only become more consolidated. The city became infamous for its […]
Rio’s oldest favela, Morro da Providência, lies just 2km from Cidade Nova, known today mostly as the location of Rio’s City Hall. Soldiers returning in 1897 from the Canudos war in Brazil’s Northeastern state of […]
Clique aqui para Português Many thousands of Rio residents packed the beaches of South Zone last Wednesday November 20, Black Awareness Day and a public holiday in Rio state. However, some sunbathers who squeezed onto […]