On the balmy shores of Bahia, surfers have become obsessed with Itacare, one of the world's best new beach getaways.

Operation Containment" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aimed to disrupt the criminal network Comando Vermelho, but with 132 dead ...

Before they can even start the grim task of tallying coronavirus deaths in Brazil's favelas, Ana Paula Sales and her team must negotiate access with the drug traffickers and armed militias that run ...

A TRAVEL blogger was fatally shot in the head while travelling in a taxi when a sudden gang shootout broke out in Brazil.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the ...

This week, we hold the line on more military strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific, mull the conviction of a Bolivian drug ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a massive operation in two favelas, resulting in 121 deaths, including four officers.

Brazilian Church organisations criticised the huge police operation carried out in Rio de Janeiro on 28 October which ...

Hundreds of protesters have marched through Vila Cruzeiro favela, demanding the resignation of Rio de Janeiro state Gov. Cláudio Castro ...

Few outsiders have seen what happens inside Brazil’s favelas neighborhoods where crime, poverty, and fear collide. This report follows a military police unit as they patrol the slums of São Paulo, ...

Andre Dread was on his rounds handing out food parcels to poor families in City of God, one of Brazil's most notorious slums, in May when the familiar sound of gunfire from a police raid sent him ...

Rio de Janeiro is the capital of Carnival in Brazil—a dazzling, five-day extravaganza of parades, music, and street parties.