topic: Brazil
May 31, 2016
By walkie-talkie Bolha passed the order along to his managers: “Look alive there! It’s one bundle for Sergeant Gonçalves’s squad, two for...
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May 3, 2016
The displacement of locals to make way for major sporting events is becoming routine in Rio de Janeiro. To make way for renovations, new...
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April 14, 2016
On April 9, 1948 a series of important events occurred in Bogota, Colombia. On that day, one of the meetings establishing the Organization...
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May 4, 2015
“We used to go to another neighborhood to get water. Everyone lived with a bucket of water on their heads. We also had no light. The light...
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June 26, 2014
As the World Cup presses on, the Verso Books blog features a critique of the games , recognizing the wave of demonstrations and labor...
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March 20, 2014
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro's recent article on NPR , posing the question of which location is "more" sexist, the Middle East or Brazil,...
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March 11, 2014
Is it possible for a city’s government to host an international sporting event without sacrificing the social and political rights of its...
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