Clique aqui para Português On August 5, 2016, the Olympic Games began in Rio de Janeiro. As teargas choked protesting activists outside Maracanã Stadium, a tiny fraction of the original residents of Vila Autódromo were busy moving into […]
Clique aqui para Português As of 2015, the City of Rio’s own data showed that 22,059 families (an estimated 77,000 individuals) across the city had been evicted from their homes since 2009, whether in the […]
Clique aqui para Português Six years ago, the 51 available City Council seats in Rio de Janeiro were all up for grabs in the 2012 election and 1,741 candidates were vying for votes. Each voter could […]
Clique aqui para Português Hundreds of residents from across Rio de Janeiro gathered in City of God on Monday morning, November 13, to march to Mayor Marcelo Crivella‘s Barra da Tijuca residence in the West Zone in protest of numerous recent […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Camilla Costa in Portuguese published by BBC Brasil click here. One of the infrastructure projects considered a major part of the Olympic legacy is the BRT TransCarioca bus rapid transit line […]