In front of his house, Albertino bends down to take a piece of bitumen raised by the heat. “Here, we walk on asbestos,” he says showing the white misty fiber on the tar. The asphalt, which was recently resurfaced, is made up of rocks derived from the mine. In Minaçu, the road from hell is littered with good intentions.
In two decades, the evangelical churches convinced almost a quarter of the population to convert. The shortage of medical and social facilities causes Brazilians to turn elsewhere, in search of a cure, for easy solutions, and perhaps also for some magic or miracle.
In two decades, the evangelical churches convinced almost a quarter of the population to convert. The shortage of medical and social facilities causes Brazilians to turn elsewhere, in search of a cure, for easy solutions, and perhaps also for some magic or miracle.
On June 9, The Intercept Brasil disclosed what could be the beginning of an unprecedented crisis in Brazil. Private conversations through the communication app Telegram were obtained from an anonymous source showing a less-than-republican chat between judge Sérgio Moro and...
In Brazil, a scandal broke out in which an enormous trove of secret documents were published by investigative journalism site, The Intercept. The documents exposed a plot by public prosecutors against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is...
Brazil is the deadliest country for transgender people in the world. Between 2008 and 2016, at least 868 transgender and transvestite people were murdered, according to the Brazilian National Association of Transvestites and Transgenders (Antra), a national network that articulates...
“Brasil chegou a vez de ouvir as Marias, Mahins, Marielles e Malês” (Brazil is time to hear the Marias, Mahins, Marielles and Malês). This is part of the lyrics that will be sung by Estação Primeira de Mangueira, one of...
When you arrived in Brazil, years ago, my friend from Rio told me: “The new Pentecostal Evangelical Churches that were created to control the population, their behaviour, their habits and, above all, the vote. The powers that have been conceived...
When action begins and the group of soldiers starts to penetrate into the complex maze of alleys and dark backstreets, an eerie silence sets on everything. The favela knows that when the policemen set off in a large group, chambers...
Following the plan for pacification, the UPP announced plans for restructuring: a closer police presence, greater respect for humanitarian laws, and to stop using weapons of war. However there are doubts. Luigi Spera and Marco Negri have interviewed Brazilian police, the UPP, in the night patrol within the favelas. This is what they saw.Edited by Roberto Di Matteo
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