Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese published by data_labe on Medium, click here. Reporting by Gabriele Roza, with data analysis by Juliana Marques, and art by Giulia Santos. Mayor Marcelo Crivella […]
Clique aqui para Português On July 27, community, municipal, and environmental organizations gathered in Maré to discuss 22 years since the Guanabara Bay Remediation Program (PDBG) was initiated, and the unfortunate consequences for the region of […]
Brazil’s first favela, Morro da Providência (Providence Hill), was built by veterans of the Canudos War. Thousands of soldiers flocked to Rio when the war ended in 1897, because the government had offered them housing in […]
Clique aqui para Português August 22, 2011—As I climbed Morro da Babilônia, up the Leme hillside overlooking Copacabana, I was taken aback by this community’s sheer beauty. Unlike many of the favelas here in Rio, […]