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One Year After the Olympics: What Remains in Rio and in Complexo do Alemão? [OPINION]

Clique aqui para Português What moves afflicted hearts in these days of chaos and insecurity? In the present day, the constant fear and state of panic that everyone lives in is perceptible. A single step […]

Parque Manguinhos Library Will Reopen: A Community Victory

By Renata Dutra • Translation by Rachel Fox • August 3, 2017

Clique aqui para Português “Reading ought to be an act of love,” said Paulo Freire. For residents of Manguinhos, a cluster of favelas in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, the mere existence of a space […]

Occupy Alemão: Youth Collective Fights Against the Criminalization of Public Spaces in Rio’s Favelas

By João Lima • Translation by Lee Weingast • August 18, 2013

Mário Lucas, 18, was brutally murdered by two plainclothes police officers in his own home in Morro da Fazendinha, in Complexo do Alemão on the morning of November 26, 2012. Two days later, a curfew […]