Tag: Brazil favelas

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Before they can even start the grim task of tallying coronavirus deaths in Brazil’s favelas, Ana Paula Sales and her team must negotiate access with the drug traffickers and armed militias that run them. It...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The second round of emergency aid will boost Brazil's GDP growth by 0.2 percentage point to 3.8% this year, writes Marcos Casarin, Oxford Economics' chief economist for Latin America. The company estimates that households will...

By Mariana Gomes, in partnership with RioOnWatch.org RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Rio de Janeiro’s wealth of artistic talent includes many under-represented voices from favelas, whose work should and can be available to a wider audience with the right coordination and...