Crime-weary residents show support for lethal operation in which security forces gunned down dozens of suspected drug traffickers ...

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

Brazilian public health researchers have found mounting evidence in the state hosting COP30 that mercury poisoning from ...

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, ...

The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of the country's oldest and most powerful criminal organizations, which dominates the drug trade in several cities ...

At least 121 people were killed in Tuesday's operation, including four policemen, according to police. Castro has accused the federal government of abandoning Rio in its fight against organized crime, ...

The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people ...

Operação Contenção (Containment Operation) is the name of what has been defined as the largest and bloodiest anti-narcos ...

HAVANA TIMES – At least 130 people were killed in a single operation carried out by police in two favelas (poor neighborhoods ...

Despite the number of inmates serving time at home, the country’s penitentiaries remain overcrowded ...