Clique aqui para Português On June 23, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the police operation in Maré which killed ten people, a demonstration took place starting in the Chapéu-Mangueira favela in Rio’s South Zone. […]
For the original by Carl Hart, Eliana Sousa Silva and Julita Lemgruber in Portuguese in O Globo click here. What do favelas and ‘cracolândias’ (‘crack lands’) have in common? Both suffer the same problems: they […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original by Rosilene Miliotti in Portuguese in Maré de Notícias click here. Although many cultural events are happening in Maré, not all have continued. The pacification force added new rules […]
Few would have imagined in 2007, when Brazil won its bid to host the World Cup, that the controversy surrounding use of public money, corruption and militarization would have unfolded as it did. A Fifa […]
Clique aqui para Português While finishing up a news story for my current employer, a foreign news agency emailed me asking if any vehicles were on fire because of that days’ bus strike. They’d seen […]