Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, and the first ever obituary published on RioOnWatch. With his college entrance exam preparatory courses […]
Clique aqui para Português While the failure of the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) model had already been signaled years ago by residents, researchers, civil society organizations, and Rio’s violence and mortality rates, only in 2018 did […]
Clique aqui para Português Orlando “Folha Seca” (Dry Leaf) Pereira da Silva, the first gardener to be formally employed by Rio de Janeiro’s Botanical Gardens, died on June 1 at the age of one hundred. […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Mariah Queiroz in Portuguese published by Agência Pública click here. Families evicted to make room for the now-abandoned Olympic Park have gone to court for reparations; data obtained through freedom of […]
Clique aqui para Português When following the news of political tumult coming out of Brasília this year, many international observers have likely found themselves struggling to wade through a sea of acronyms. This is because […]