topic: Brazil

The displacement of locals to make way for major sporting events is becoming routine in Rio de Janeiro. To make way for renovations, new...

On April 9, 1948 a series of important events occurred in Bogota, Colombia. On that day, one of the meetings establishing the Organization...

“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...

As the World Cup presses on, the Verso Books blog features a critique of the games , recognizing the wave of demonstrations and labor...

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro's recent article on NPR , posing the question of which location is "more" sexist, the Middle East or Brazil,...

Is it possible for a city’s government to host an international sporting event without sacrificing the social and political rights of its...