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‘Avenue of Death’: the Rio motorway where stray bullets, botched raids and resilience collide

Brazil Avenue was meant to symbolise progress – today it tells the story of a city at war with itself

The Guardian - US · May 29, 2025

‘United in extravagance’: Rio’s working-class carnival ball-slammers

During the carnival season, groups of bate-bolas roam the streets of their neighbourhoods in elaborate costumes

The Guardian - US · Feb 15, 2024

‘We love the adrenaline’: Brazil’s illegal hot-air ballooning scene

Competing teams race to covertly release banned kaleidoscopic creations on Rio outskirts

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024

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‘They’re treating us like thieves’: Rio de Janeiro traders rage as historic flea market shuts

Feira de Acari is closed down by the mayor after claims that gangsters used it to sell stolen goods

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2024

‘The Party of London’: Rio’s favela funk raves look to the world

Naming trend began about five years ago, but these bailes are far more than the ear-shattering raves vilified by the authorities

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2023

‘Funk is the reality we live’: Rio show celebrates sound of the favela

Exhibition puts music previously shunned by elites as ‘stuff of outlaws’ in long tradition of black culture and resistance

The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023

‘Even Lucifer was using a fan’: Brazil bakes as mercilessly hot spring begins

Having just emerged from its warmest winter since 1961, the country is sweltering amid unforgiving and unseasonal temperatures

The Guardian - US · Sep 26, 2023

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Christ and cocaine: Rio’s gangs of God blend faith and violence

In the city’s favelas, a new generation of ‘narco-pentecostals’ are embracing Christian symbols

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2022

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