For the original text in Portuguese by Léo Lima in Favela em Foco, click here. On the evening of April 4th 2013, around 9pm, in the area known as Beira do Rio in the favela […]
RioOnWatch was the first news site to report on the brutal Favela do Metrô eviction back in November 2010. A year and a half later we revisit the scene to see how residents have faired. […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Raquel Rolnik in Portuguese click here. Sunday, January 22, 2012, 6:00 am, São José dos Campos (SP). Thousands of men, women, children and elderly residents of the […]
To act like something still under scrutiny is decided is a well-known strategy to resolve an issue without having to systematize it. This is what (Rio’s largest daily) O Globo tried to do with its cover […]