Castro was born in 1948 and began his fruitful career as a reporter and biographer in 1967 - She is Carioca: an encyclopedia of ipanema is available in most main bookstores, and online via livraria travessa on this link or via livraria folha here.   

published by Mórula Editorial, O Novo carioca (the new Carioca) by Jailson de Souza e Silva, Jorge Luiz Barbosa and Marcus Vinícius Faustini looks to posit the idea of a 'new carioca' who is guided by the recognition of the 'other' and of difference.

Faustini declared: 'I think of rio as a popular city not as the Marvelous City'. He aims to re-imagine the stereotyped image of rio, and the conventional carioca, associated with beauty, beaches, leisure and tourist sites, viewing these images as the 'silent construction of a rio that is the sum of several people who produce the wealth of the city'.