Santa Marta

Favela Activists Launch Series of Unique Favela Tours for Cariocas and Visitors Alike

Clique aqui para Português The second installment of Rolé dos Favelados (Stroll of the Favelados) kicked off this Saturday, February 18 in the downtown favela of [...]

February 20, 2017

Armed police officer and resident of Parque Proletário, in the Complexo da Penha (Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil)

Pacifying Police Units: Eight Years Later

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Saulo Pereira Guitarães and Bibiana Maia in Portuguese published in Vozerio click here. The first Pacifying Police [...]

January 8, 2017

The Favela as a Community Land Trust: A Solution to Eviction and Gentrification?

Clique aqui para Português This is the second in a series of three articles summarizing reports on Brazilian housing law, organized by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for [...]

November 15, 2016

Gira and the Circus of Life: Circus Arts and Social Transformation in Praça Onze [FILM REVIEW]

Clique aqui para Português Part of Rise Up & Care’s Reimagine Rio Festival, the film Gira and the Circus of Life (Portuguese title No Risco do Circo no Risco da [...]

August 30, 2016

Dancing with the Devil in the City of God [Book Review]

Clique aqui para Português Brazilian-born journalist Juliana Barbassa presents a stunning profile of the paradoxically beautiful city that is Rio de Janeiro in her first [...]

July 8, 2016

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