Friday, March 29, 2024

Cities, Urban Planning, Housing, Transport

Rio: from kudos to chaos

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In less than three months Rio has passed from the splendour and success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to a state of public...

Amazon fires at record level — again

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Fires in the Amazon rage at record levels, while Michel Temer government prepares to sign Paris agreement on climate change next week.

Argentina — controversy over glyphosate

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Argentine agriculture is dominated by GM soya yet local residents increasingly fear that the pesticides used to cultivate it are making them sick.

Rio’s Not-So-Green Olympics

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Brazil promised "Green Games for a Blue Planet". But did it deliver?

Brazil — A Bridge to the Future?

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The programme introduced by acting President Michel Temer consists of extreme neo-liberal measures that the government believes can be imposed by force. But will it work?

Brazil: transport is not a commodity

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Passe Livre has held 7 mass demonstrations in São Paulo aiming to force the government to rescind fare rises.

Mexico: Slim pickings

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How can a country where half the population lives below the poverty line, produce Carlos Slim often regarded as the world's richest man?

Brazil — federal police have a sense of humour

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The last episode in Brazil's fast-moving political drama around the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff gives us more arrests, head-butting and fisticuffs.

Brazil — Theatre of the Absurd

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With the extreme right in control of the Brazilian Congress, ethics has been stood on its head and events beggar belief. Jan Rocha reports from Sāo Paulo.

CASA Latin American Theatre Festival

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Posts and reviews from the eighth year of the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival, London

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