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On my return to Rio, I rode a ferryboat and then the subway to reach Botafogo.  It’s interesting how past and modernity coexist together. Rio is the city of antithesis, socially, culturally, economically and technologically. Both the old ferryboat and the subway were very useful to me and I speedily arrived at my destination. Then right away I was presented with a picturesque scene. A fairly old fellow with a very young hea...

By the time I was 23 I had already graduated in history the year before and was working on my master’s degree. It was exactly this master’s degree that led me to taking the trip to Rio de Janeiro. At the time I also worked in a research project for the university and so, tallying my research interests with the needs of this project, I decided to go to Rio de Janeiro. This city has always captivated me. It is ambiguous and ...

I woke up not knowing where I was. In fact, I realized that I had not been conscious of myself for some time. Some fleeting, disconnected memories, nothing to help me understand what had happened. I was in a room with two empty beds. I slept on a mattress on the floor beside the two beds. There was a bathroom, a closet. Surely I was not in a prison or a hospital. Little did I know that it was a cross between. I saw that the te...

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‘It may not be that woman you are missing It may not be this heat that does you harm It may not be that tie which is suffocating you Or that lack of money which is fatal See how a mild flame molds a strong iron See how the asphalt is your garden if you believe That there is a sunrise reddening the dark sky Calling men to their time to live’   Excerpt from song by TAIGUARA: May the children sing freely. In response to ...