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

Buenos Aires, Oct 29, (dpa/GNA) – Residents of the Penha favela in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, laid out at least 64 bodies on one of the neighbourhood’s main streets on Wednesday, after a ...

Church leaders, including the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal Orani Tempesta, and the heads of the Bishops’ Conference ...

Fly above Corcovado Hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for an aerial view of Christ the Redeemer—one of the New Seven Wonders of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left ...

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for action against organized crime that does not endanger police or civilians, as ...

State police said the raids targeting a major drug gang had been planned exhaustively for more than two months, and were designed to drive suspects into a forested hillside where a special operations ...

After what is being criticized as Brazil’s latest example of the excessive use of force, at least 50 bodies of mostly topless ...

Police raids in Brazil have killed more than 100 people, including four officers, making it the deadliest police operation in ...

Gang members in Rio de Janeiro bombed police with drones in retaliation for their deadliest raid on the city’s drug ...

Brazilian police hit the Rio gang hard in a raid that left 119 dead, and which human rights groups called a "disaster." ...

The death toll in Rio’s deadliest police operation in history rose to 132 people, the state authorities say, sparking outrage ...