The so-called Police Pacification Units aim to wrest control of favelas from drug gangs Brazilian police poured into a dozen slum areas of Rio de Janeiro over the weekend continuing a drive to ...

Brother Fabio preaches at a church in Santa Marta, one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. What he means is that the citizenry of Santa Marta is part of a plan to clean up the hillside slums for the ...

Mario Azevedo, Chief of Police, 21st Police Precinct, Rio de Janeiro “Police institutions ... residents of one of Rio’s infamous hillside slums, or favelas, were killed. We also document ...

In Rio de Janeiro, the balance of power may be shifting from militias to one of the city’s oldest criminal groups.

It was at the foot of the Sugarloaf that Portuguese explorers founded the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1565. And, just as Rio in its early days was subject to attack by (mostly French) pirates and ...

Netflix’s new hit crime drama Outlaw is capturing global attention with its shocking portrayal of Brazil’s notorious Raquel ...

The Brazilian government will spend 1.7 billion dollars to bring running water and other basic services to Rio de Janeiro slums to counter drug gangs that control many of the poor areas ...

The Brazilian government has appointed an army general to oversee security in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in response to growing gang violence. President Michel Temer compared the violence to "a ...

governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, according to Agencia Brasil. Military police told reporters they were entering the virtually impenetrable labyrinth of slums, searching for drug gang ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Novak Djokovic was in Rio de Janeiro ... Kuerten for the inauguration of the public court in the Rocinha slum, one of Latin America's largest. He will also face the former ...

She and about 70 other young women in the Bola de Ouro project train on an artificial grass pitch in a safe region of the 3-square kilometers long (1.15 square mile) community. If not on the pitch ...