Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series on the 2026 Brazilian elections, focusing on the perspectives of Greater Rio’s favelas. It is also the first installment of a two-part article on the […]
Clique aqui para Português For much of the 20th century, between the shores of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon and Rio de Janeiro’s Leblon neighborhood, stood one of the largest favelas in the city’s upscale […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch‘s series on Memories of Favela Power, which documents and celebrates the history of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas through narratives and reports from residents’ collective memory, in […]
Clique aqui para Português On November 30, 2021, the Memory and Truth Commission of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (CMV/UFRJ) livestreamed the episode “The Black Population and Favela Residents Under the Dictatorship,” one […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series of articles on Rio de Janeiro’s 2020 municipal elections from a favela perspective. With an estimated population of 6,718,903, according to the Brazilian Institute for […]