Clique aqui para Português This video-report shares accounts by three street vendors and shows the lived reality of informal workers on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. The video features Maria de Lourdes do Carmo, […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Wednesday, May 24, a “shock order operation” [aggressive program to crack down on public disorder] by the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Public Order Secretariat (SEOP) demolished 25 wooden and brick […]
Clique aqui para Português At 7:15am on Thursday, September 19, residents of Canal do Anil, a small favela located in the Jacarepaguá region of Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone, awoke to the sounds of chaos. […]
Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, November 13, national, state, and municipal forces undertook the first forced eviction in Rio de Janeiro since the pre-Olympic Games era—when Mayor Eduardo Paes oversaw the removal of tens […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the eighth article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. The first of two rounds of voting for Brazil’s next president takes place this Sunday, October […]