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Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 16, 2020

The Silent Hecatomb: Pandemic in Rio’s Favelas

By Luís Costa

[Ed. note: This is part of a series of reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from global cities.]

Fruit and cake stalls, bars, groceries, and trinket stands line the access road to the Favela of Pavão-Pavãozinho in Rio de Janeiro. Buckets …

Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 16, 2020

By Francisco Foot Hardman

[Ed. note: This is part of a series of reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from global cities.]

When some of my colleagues from IEL-Unicamp who study Indigenous Languages and Education, among them Filomena Sândalo and Wilmar D’Angelis, sent a …