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

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 ...

Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze, free transit, and public grocery plans test socialism’s urban promise and expose capitalism’s ...

Ten years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the Indigenous Krenak people are still mourning what they call “the death of the river.” ...

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In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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