Category Archives: Rio de Janeiro public safety

What’s really happening with public safety?

We’ll be able to know so much Brazil has a  long tradition of mystery, when it comes to public safety. Sometimes, neither the actual public policy nor its exact targets are known — currently the case in Rio de Janeiro … Continue reading

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Rio de Janeiro in 2019

A thorough cleaning expected It would be easy to predict Rio de Janeiro’s future if the world were divided into good guys and bad guys. Since it isn’t, we find ourselves amid conflicting trends and data, hard to analyze via … Continue reading

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Security or danger: what awaits us in Rio?

“This is the last dance… of the Titanic” said one of the participants at a public safety seminar last week, making indirect reference to the infamous luxurious last dance of the Ilha Fiscal, which took place in Rio just before … Continue reading

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