Centro de Escalada Urbana: Connecting and Inspiring Rocinha’s Youth

Once, climbing among the granite crags of Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, I met a Brazilian climber who described climbing in Continue reading →

Bolsonaro and Rocinha

If you’ve followed politics in the Western Hemisphere over the past two years, you are pretty familiar with the pattern Continue reading →

Olympics revisited – Rio’s Morro da Providencia

For this next post, I want to revisit the oldest favela in Rio de Janeiro- Morro da Providencia- a favela Continue reading →

Gondolas+cable cars+telesféricos

Image above: Medellín’ s Cable in the Comunas 1 and 2; source: Albeiro Lopera I wanted to share an article by Continue reading →

Planning Failure, Ecological Failure

  The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics are quickly approaching. The years since Rio was awarded the 2016 Summer Continue reading →

Political Titans and Cost of Living

You can hardly throw a digital rock without hitting Brazil-related reporting these days. As big a deal as zika/microcephaly is Continue reading →

Christian Tragni Photojournalism by a Guy

I first talked with Christian Tragni after seeing his photos of young men in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro with their Continue reading →

Sambinha Architecture and the Latent World

They say that architecture brings out attributes of the world that may have gone unexpressed or unnoticed in its absence. Sometimes Continue reading →