Rio de Janeiro's famous favelas ... Vulnerable to deadly mud slides, the hillside slums have always been home to migrants from Brazil's rural northeast. But life in the favelas took a dramatic ...

The Brazilian government will spend 1.7 billion dollars to bring running water and other basic services to Rio de Janeiro slums to counter drug gangs that control many of the poor areas ...

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.

As the Rio Olympics approach, a major issue has been security in a city where violence has long plagued hundreds of slums. The bloody reality was ... who had only recently taken over as Brazil news ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man went into cardiac arrest and died while waiting in an urgent care center in Rio de Janeiro, health authorities said. José Silva visited the medical facility in the Cidade de Deus slum on ...