Brazil police violence reignites after deadly Rio, Sao Paulo raids
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilReuters Police in Rio de Janeiro killed at least nine people in a raid on Wednesday, in the latest example of deadly violence by Brazil’s security officials after 16 people died at the hands of Sao Paulo state police earlier this week. Brazil, the country with the highest number of murders in […]
Santa Claus delivers Christmas cheer in Brazil’s City of God slum
Rio de Janeiro Reuters Santa Claus strode into the Brazil’s City of God favela this week, delivering much-needed Christmas cheer to some of Rio de Janeiro’s poorest children. Dressed in an unseasonably warm red suit and jacket, with an artificial white beard strapped to his chin, Santa Claus was mobbed as he handed out toys […]
Rio de Janeiro drug shootout death toll rises to 28; judge sees signs of “arbitrary execution”
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilReuters The death toll from a police raid on a drug gang in a poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood on Thursday has risen to 28, civil police said on Friday, the deadliest operation ever carried out by the security forces in the Brazilian city. The bodies of three more victims removed from […]
Postcards: Brazil’s favelas struggle to count their dead as coronavirus rages
FABIO TEIXEIRA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts, despite dangers, to ensure an accurate count of COVID-19 deaths in Brazil’s favelas…
“Starve to death or die of COVID” – stark choice for Brazil’s poor
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Coronavirus is spreading and deaths are mounting – but what most worries the leaders of Brazil’s isolated and vulnerable communities is how on earth to feed people now government has pulled their main emergency aid. Ivone Rocha is co-founder of Semeando Amor, a non-profit that distributes basic staples to […]
Bloodshed eases in Brazilian favelas after court ban on police raids
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Andre Dread was on his rounds handing out food parcels to poor families in City of God, one of Brazil’s most notorious slums, in May when the familiar sound of gunfire from a police raid sent him running for cover. Two weeks later, the Supreme Court banned all such […]
Rio’s favelas turn to technology to fight underreporting of coronavirus cases
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Rio de Janeiro has more than 640 deaths from coronavirus in its favelas, a new information dashboard showed on Thursday, part of an effort to combat underreporting of the disease in the city’s slums. The dashboard, a collection of charts and information arranged in a graphic display, aggregates coronavirus […]
Essay: Megacity slums are incubators of disease – but coronavirus response isn’t helping the billion people who live in them
In an article first published on The Conversation, ROBERT MUGGAH of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and RICHARD FLORIDA, of the University of Toronto, look at why the world’s biggest city slums are particularly vulnerable to disease outbreaks like the coronavirus pandemic…
WORLD IN CRISIS: CORONAVIRUS CHASES THE SLUM DWELLERS OF LATIN AMERICA
OSCAR LOPEZ and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, reporting for Thomson Reuters Foundation, look at the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on those living in South America’s slums…
PROFILE: “I PRAY EVERY DAY” SAYS RIO SLUM “WARRIOR” HEADING 15 YEAR LAND TITLE FIGHT
KARLA MENDES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on one woman’s 15 year fight to improve her commununity in Rio’s slums…