He held up a sign reading: “Children should be able to play, the favela wants to live in peace.” The boy was one of hundreds of people who marched Friday through the streets of Vila Cruzeiro, one of ...

In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in Brazil's deadliest-ever police operation.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to protest Brazil’s deadliest police operation, which left at least 121 people dead. Demonstrators are demanding justice, an ...

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Authorities confiscated more than $2 million worth of weapons during a recent anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro, the deadliest in Brazil's history, the state government said Saturday.