Police arrest a suspect during a raid against alleged drug traffickers of the Comando Vermelho criminal organization in the ...

It was the fourth such massacre carried out under Governor Cláudio Castro – but it was by far the most barbaric. Many of the ...

Before they can even start the grim task of tallying coronavirus deaths in Brazil's favelas, Ana Paula Sales and her team must negotiate access with the drug traffickers and armed militias that run ...

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil’s largest cities, police operations are carried out in areas with a strong presence of criminal factions and drug trafficking. Armored vehicles and ...

Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys. Rifle shots cracking in heavy crossfire. Helicopters and weaponized drones firing from above. Soldiers in military gear engaged in violent combat.

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas are mobilizing to make sure the voices of the world's informal settlements aren't left out of global climate talks.

After the deadliest police operation ever carried out in Brazil, Catholic Church authorities spoke out in defense of the dignity of every human life, stressing that hatred and indifference will not ...

Dozens of bodies line the streets, schools are closed and the city is paralysed. A major police operation targeting organised crime in the northern Rio de Janeiro favelas has resulted in at least 121 ...

Ian Cheibub for NPR It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva’s roof. Students from both ...

Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot ...