São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil
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Request QuoteManuela Azenha was born in USA but lived practically all her life in Brazil. Speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish. As a reporter, worked for Folha de S.Paulo, FOX Sports, Brasileiros Magazine, Nocaute, website of the writer and journalist Fernando Morais, and today is a communication consultant for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Specialized in covering politics and human rights.
On the weekend of the 10th Marijuana March in São Paulo, watch the report on the medical and recreational use of marijuana and the impacts of the weed's criminalization policy.
Nocaute went to the region known as Cracolândia three days after the start of the "cleaning" operation made by the City Hall in partnership with the state of São Paulo. Residents, drug users and workers reported serious abuses and human rights violations.
Nocaute spoke to former prisoners and a former Carandiru guard to know about life inside what was once one of the largest prisons in Latin America and the difficulties of reentrying society after serving their sentences.
While the military occupy Rio de Janeiro's favelas, the Autonomous Boxing project wants to promote social transformation in poor communities through sport.
Contrary to the prevailing discourse in public safety institutions, progressive groups of police officers, municipal and prison guards dialogue through social media to propose a different security model.
Persecution, torture, humiliation and the attempt to repair the damage and rebuild life: the dictatorship for those who lived the regime within the military.
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