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In Rio’s largest favela, used oil becomes soap and social change
By André Aram Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than ...
As the Rio de Janeiro security forces continue moving community policing units into slums long controlled by criminal gangs, InSight brings an on-the-ground view about what the “pacification” process ...
A police raid in Rio de Janeiro’s Penha favela turned into the city's deadliest operation, with over 64 fatalities including ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Saturday is not a school day, so kids in Rio de Janeiro’s City of God favela fill the dirt roads playing soccer or pretending to be cops and robbers around dangerous alleys. All ...
Images of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro tend to look alike. In a panel Tuesday, video journalist Nadia Sussman observed that the most common photographs of the favelas, or shantytowns, depict “red ...
In Rio de Janeiro's Penha favela, over 60 bodies were discovered following a deadly police raid targeting a notorious drug ...
She was once the reluctant rugby player from a Rio de Janiero favela, now teenager Eshyllen Coimbra Cordoso is pulling on a Brazil jersey for the national sevens side. A keen volleyball player as a ...
*I'm unsurprised to learn that there are actual clubs – two of 'em, apparently, in Paris and London – called "Favela Chic." *They're ten years old. They look gratifyingly cute and creative, too, like ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Saturday is not a school day, so kids in Rio de Janeiro’s City of God favela fill the dirt roads playing soccer or pretending to be cops and robbers around dangerous alleys. All ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Saturday is not a school day, so kids in Rio de Janeiro’s City of God favela fill the dirt roads playing soccer or pretending to be cops and robbers around dangerous alleys. All ...
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