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“Lots of Gunfire, Little Intelligence”: Rio’s Military Failure
Deaths in massacres have increased while arms apprehensions have dropped, according to data from the Candido Mendes University Center for Security and Citizenship Studies’ …
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Iconic Rio bar owner arrested following tribute to slain Marielle
On the night of March 18th, Alfredo Jacinto Mello was pulled out of his bar, the legendary Bip Bip in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, …
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The Assassination Of Socialist Marielle Franco
On March 14th in the Estácio area of Rio de Janeiro, Councilwoman Marielle Franco of the Socialism & Freedom Party (PSOL) was executed with 5 …
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Rio isn’t Brasil’s most dangerous city, so why the military occupation?
When I first moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1991 tens of thousands of homeless families lived in cardboard boxes in Copacabana and locals …
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Etchegoyen: Brasil’s Strongest Man?
In February 2017, ousted President Dilma Rousseff warned of a second, more radical and more repressive phase of the Coup d’état which removed her …
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Intervention in Rio is one more outrage by Temer
The Central Unica de Trabalhadores (Unified Workers Central/CUT) is the largest union federation in Latin America, with around 8 million members. In January, working …
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Rio Carnaval, 1964
Wonderful colour photographs of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval in 1964. Originally posted at vintage.es.
Neoliberal Vampires: Rio Carnaval Politicizes
By Gabriel Deslandes. Rio de Janeiro Carnaval parade groups, called Samba Schools, are preparing social and political criticism for the 2018 carnaval, with parades …
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‘Cadeia Velha’ and the tentacles of Rio’s PMDB
In an exclusive contribution to Brasil Wire, an established Rio de Janeiro journalist using the pseudonym Luiz Matheus exposes how the internal battle within …
A Carnival of Chaos
The coup has transformed Brazil into a carnival of chaos and a parade of instability where samba drums have the rhythm of a planned insanity. …
