Clique aqui para Português On June 2, Coletivo Papo Reto, an independent youth media collective from Complexo do Alemão in Rio’s North Zone, created two complementary resistance calendars as a response to the heavy police violence the community […]
Clique aqui para Português Maré means ‘the tide.’ The name comes from when the favela community was first started in a wetland area with many of the houses built on stilts to withstand the waters. […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Mariá Martín in Portuguese published by El País click here. Rio de Janeiro buries one police officer every other day. A report shows lack of training, corruption and precarious […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a four-part series on the social construction of favelas and the potential of favela tourism to break down negative stereotypes. The first article of this series established how […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a four-part series on the social construction of favelas and the potential of favela tourism to break down negative stereotypes. One of the key perpetrators of creating […]