Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Michel Silva published by Favela em Pauta click here. Brazil’s Defence Minister, Raul Jungmann, announced in July 2017 that favelas in Rio de Janeiro would […]
Clique aqui para Português Orlando “Folha Seca” (Dry Leaf) Pereira da Silva, the first gardener to be formally employed by Rio de Janeiro’s Botanical Gardens, died on June 1 at the age of one hundred. […]
Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday July 11, President Michel Temer sanctioned law 13,465 / 2017, based on what was previously a provisional measure, MP 759, which deals mainly with federal land regularization. The presidential vote occurred […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a three-part series on the history of the Projeto Rio urban renewal program in Maré, from 1979-1981. On the afternoon of June 10, 1981, Brazil President […]
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, May 31, the Brazilian Senate approved Provisional Measure 759/2016 (MP 759), which deals with land regularization for rural, urban and Amazonian lands. It now moves ahead for presidential approval. The measure […]