Clique aqui para Português A majority of the world’s population now lives in urban centers. As we have distanced ourselves from rural life, many people have lost direct contact with agriculture and the process of […]
Clique aqui para Português Celebrating literature from Rio de Janeiro’s favela communities, the annual Literary Festival of the Urban Periphery, or FLUPP, returned for its fifth edition this month. This year’s event took place from November […]
Clique aqui para Português With less than 100 days to the 2016 Olympic Games, Rio’s Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) program and public security in Rio is in crisis. Although the controversial UPP program has faced setbacks […]
Clique aqui para Português The Rio that bid for the 2016 Olympics and then reveled in its 2009 campaign victory was not shy of dreaming big. Among other commitments, the city planned to transform city-wide […]
Clique aqui para Português On his way past a group of houses at the top of the hill of Babilônia favela in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone on March 31, Neighborhood Association president André Constantine stopped to […]