Jenny Barchfield

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In this May 21, 2014 photo, A boy kicks a penalty during a soccer match in the ruins of Paricatuba, near Manaus, Brazil. Children of the tiny village of Paricatuba, which grew up around the villa, use the ruins as a spot for energetic games of barefoot soccer or to scare themselves silly. Teenagers come here to make out, and older people to get drunk. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Amazon ruins await adventurous World Cup visitors

Jenny Barchfield · May 30, 2014 3:52 pm

In this Sunday, May 11, 2014 photo, police stand outside the Maracana stadium, before a Brazilian league soccer match between Fluminense and Flamengo, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Muggings on public transportation, public beaches and in popular tourist areas are on the rise in Rio de Janeiro, eroding the strides the city had made in security in recent years as it geared up to host six World Cup matches and the 2016 Olympic. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Worrying rise in Rio’s assaults ahead of World Cup

Jenny Barchfield · May 21, 2014 4:03 am

Rio official: Water pollution targets won’t be met

Jenny Barchfield · May 18, 2014 2:09 am

A woman shouts at police officers as residents of Pavao-Pavaozinho slum clash with riot police during a protest against the death of Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira after his burial in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, April 24, 2014. The protest followed the burial of Douglas Pereira, whose shooting death sparked clashes Tuesday night between police and residents of the Pavao-Pavaozinho slum. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

FIFA downplays Brazil violence worries

Jenny Barchfield · April 25, 2014 10:01 pm

Friends and neighbors of the late Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira pray before playing soccer in a plaza near the spot where Silva Pereira's body was found in the Pavao Pavaozinho slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. On Tuesday night, angry residents who blame police set fires and showered homemade explosives and glass bottles onto a busy avenue in the city's main tourist zone following the killing of the popular local figure. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Rio official pledges transparent probe in slaying

Jenny Barchfield · April 24, 2014 1:22 am

Elaine da Silva Moraes poses for a photo backdropped by piles of discarded costumes after carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Moraes is a "catadora," or trash picker, and hundreds of others like her, for whom Carnival represents an annual boon. Dressed in a patchwork of costume parts rescued from the detritus, Moraes fills plastic garbage bags with her treasures - feathers, props, headgear and costly fabrics that she re-sells or transforms into new costumes or clothing.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Refuse pickers give new life to Rio Carnival trash

Jenny Barchfield · March 4, 2014 4:09 pm

Brazil’s Carnival turns focus to glitzy parades

Jenny Barchfield · March 2, 2014 9:49 pm

Mud madness: Brazilian town’s dirty Carnival party

Jenny Barchfield · March 1, 2014 6:19 pm

In this Jan. 9, 2014 photo, a resident looks from her window at the Favela do Metro slum near Maracana stadium where some homes have been demolished in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Residents in this slum were evicted from their homes two years ago for the area to be renovated for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, but people reoccupied the homes and are fighting to stay. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Critics blast Rio’s World Cup, Olympic evictions

Jenny Barchfield · February 28, 2014 4:14 pm

Wallace Aparecido Souza Silva is presented to the press at Special Police Unit for Tourism Support (DEAT) after being arrested for allegedly attacking tourists in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. An American woman was gang raped and beaten aboard a public transport van while her French boyfriend was shackled, hit with a crowbar and forced to watch the attacks after the pair boarded the vehicle in Rio de Janeiro's showcase Copacabana beach neighborhood, police said. The attacks took place over six hours starting shortly after midnight on Saturday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Rape, kidnap of tourists feed Rio safety fears

Jenny Barchfield · April 3, 2013 4:00 am

Tourists kidnapped, 1 sexually assaulted in Rio

Jenny Barchfield · April 2, 2013 1:29 pm

Tourists kidnapped, 1 sexually assaulted in Rio

Jenny Barchfield · April 2, 2013 1:29 pm