For original post in Portuguese on Comitê Popular do Rio click here. After Rio’s City government asked Google to reduce the presence of favelas on the map of Rio de Janeiro, the word “favela” was […]
Clique aqui para Português “There’s a total lack of transparency on the part of the authorities with Colônia and its residents. We want answers,” asserts Juliana Moura Marques, resident of Colônia Juliano Moreira in Jacarepaguá […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 3 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 1 and Part 2. In Rio, the end of the 2000s brought a trickle of funding to a […]
For original article in Carta Capital in Portuguese click here. A report released in 2012 by the U.N. Council on Human Rights asked Brazil to make more of an effort to combat the activities of “death […]
Last Saturday, March 15th, a few hundred spirited citizens gathered in unity to protest the wave of privatization that is accompanying Rio’s preparations for next year’s World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, in a march […]