Two years after the murder of popular Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco, her partner Monica Benicio has also won a ...

B efore dawn on October 28th, security forces advanced into dozens of slums in Rio de Janeiro. Their targets were the leaders ...

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 ...

Hundreds of heavily armed Brazilian police raided slum areas of Rio in a drug raid today, touching off firefights likened to ...

The operation starting on Tuesday saw armed officers move into the Complexo do Alemao and Penha favelas in Brazil’s most ...

The violent raids have sparked intense gun battles, with gangs deploying drones against cops in retaliation. At least four ...

The United States Embassy as well as the United Nations Human Rights Office issued warnings and statements about a police ...

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

At least 64 people, including four police officers, were killed in the northern part of Rio de Janeiro during a police ...

BRAZILIAN police have been accused of decapitating a teenage gangster and hanging his head from a tree like a trophy in a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - At least 132 people were killed during a deadly police raid on drug suspects in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, ...

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, ...