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Rio de Janeiro Mayor Crivella’s Strategic Plan Heavily Criticized in Wide Ranging Civil Society Debate

By Priscilla Mayrink • Translation by Melinda Gurr • November 6, 2017

Clique aqui para Português A series of public forums on the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro continued on October 23 with its second installment, titled “Rio’s Strategic Plan: Urban Entrepreneurship and the Institutional Fragmentation of […]

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‘There Will Be No Evictions’: Rio das Pedras Wins One Battle, Faces Another

By Lucas Smolcic Larson, Tyler Strobl • October 30, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Hundreds of people gathered at the Campo do Via Light in the Rio das Pedras favela, in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, October 26, to hear an important announcement […]

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Popular Council Delivers Declaration Demanding Changes to Rio Mayor’s Strategic Plan

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • October 5, 2017

Clique aqui para Português The Popular Council, composed of residents of diverse favelas across Rio de Janeiro together with the Catholic Church’s Pastoral das Favelas and the Land and Housing Nucleus (NUTH) of the Public Defender’s […]

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During Tense Week, Mayor Crivella Makes Promises On Rocinha Community Radio Program

By Michel Silva • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • October 2, 2017

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Michel Silva published on Fala Roça click here. RioOnWatch Editor’s note: On Sunday, September 17, shootouts between drug traffickers broke out in Rocinha, initiating a […]

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The Avoidance of Popular and Favela Participation in Rio’s Strategic Planning

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • September 30, 2017

Clique aqui para Português The Organic Law of Rio de Janeiro requires the municipal administration to develop a Strategic Plan for its term in power, and furthermore, to promote a consultation process with the population’s […]

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