A white house in a quiet corner of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been attracting a stream of visitors in recent ...

Brother Fabio preaches at a church in Santa Marta, one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. What he means is that the citizenry of Santa Marta is part of a plan to clean up the hillside slums for the ...

A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven ... Comando Vermelho (Red Command), one of Brazil's largest drug trafficking organizations.

Mario Azevedo, Chief of Police, 21st Police Precinct, Rio de Janeiro “Police institutions ... residents of one of Rio’s infamous hillside slums, or favelas, were killed. We also document ...

Spirits were abroad on New Year’s Eve along the beaches around Rio de Janeiro. The five-mile crescent ... candles of some 600,000 devotees of Brazil’s fastest-growing cult: “spiritism.” ...

violence and organized crime in Brazil. He is an ethnographer who has spent the past thirty years doing field research in the favelas, or slum neighborhoods, of Rio de Janeiro. His first book, Popular ...

Brazil has a history as a peaceful country ... Just steps from some of the largest Olympic venues are areas of Rio de Janeiro plagued by poverty and crime. Slums, or “favelas,” are within half a mile ...