Photograph by Nathan Rupert via Flickr/Creative Commons 2.0.
21 July 2022
Drugs & Race
The police confront the residents of the Cracolandia neighborhood in 2019. Residents are frequently harassed by the police and must deal with military-like interventions in their neighbourhood. Photo: Yandry_kw
25 May 2022
Overdose equipment and other harm reduction materials would be made available by the Department of Health's harm reduction fund. Photo: David Nager/Alliance
14 March 2022
17 February 2022
29 June 2021
Bolsonaro poses with the symbol of the Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE in the Portuguese acronym) of the Military Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro in August 2020. It might be one of those strange coincidences that happen in Brazil, but the BOPE symbol bears a gruesome resemblance to the emblem of the paramilitary death squad Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq, formed in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro. BOPE was established in 1978. Also coincidentally, one of the paramilitaries who assassinated councilwoman Marielle Franco, former BOPE officer Ronnie Lessa, was officialy registered in Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq ranks. Lessa and Bolsonaro lived in the same condominium in Rio de Janeiro, and his daughter dated one of the president’s sons. Source: Palácio do Planalto/Author: Marcos Correa.
28 June 2021
Photograph of Rio de Janeiro via Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons 2.0
19 May 2021
Protests outside the White House following the death of George Floyd. Photo by Geoff Livingston, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
12 May 2021
The authors of a new government report claim that the debate on legalisation needs to be neutral. From a semiotic point of view, though, a picture of a person covering their face in signal of distress while rejecting a bag containing what seems to be cocaine powder in a primer with arguments against the legalisation of cannabis does not look neutral. Source: Ministry of Citizenship.
28 April 2021
Heavily-armed policemen conducting an operation in the Favela da Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, in 2017. Source: Wikimedia Commons; author: Fernando Frasão/Agência Brasil.
22 February 2021