Rio de Janeiro police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including four police officers, during a raid in low-income, ...

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

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

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

RIO DE JANEIRO – A massive police raid targeting a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro left at least 121 people dead, authorities said Thursday morning.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools intended to ...

Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than 12,000 favelas, or ...

The awards recognized initiatives from Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of Congo for their work on ...

At least 119 people – 115 alleged gang members and four police officers – were killed on Oct 28. Read more at ...

The head, its hair dyed red, was severed from the body and found in dense vegetation near a Rio favela, some 24 hours after ...

About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers have launched a massive raid on a criminal gang in Rio de Janeiro and arrested 81 ...

Renata Alves* remembers the judgemental glances people gave her as she walked the narrow alleys of her favela in the southern ...