Residents found more than 70 bodies following the previous day’s raid aimed at halting the spread of organized crime ...

A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

Bonita walks every morning past the colorful walls at the entrance of Favela Haiti, in Vila Prudente (eastern zone of São Paulo). Made up and wearing the city government uniform, she disagrees with ...

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

SAO PAULOSAO PAULO — Un grupo de niños recientemente hizo fila para recibir sus tajadas de una enorme torta azul en un centro comunitario de Sao Paulo. Pero no se trataba de ningún cumpleaños: era el ...

By André Aram Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than ...

Apart from the streets of Heliópolis—one of the city's biggest favelas—some of the plays will be performed at night at the headquarters of the Heliópolis Theater Company.Divulgação/Companhia de ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have been accused of decapitating a teenager and hanging his head from a tree during the deadliest ...

Brazil has densely populated, low-income communities living on the outskirts of many cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Ordering online shopping just isn’t an option as they don’t have an ...

Latin American scholar Simone Buechler spent years researching several of the largest favelas in Sao Paolo. At some point in this project, she had to negotiate with the drug gangs that began to take ...

São Paulo — A thunderstorm breaks the afternoon heat for a few moments in Portelinha, a favela in São Paulo. The rain pushes raw sewage and debris along narrow streets and downhill toward the river.