A police operation in Rio de Janeiro slums known as favelas aimed at ... and another four died in a Salvador neighborhood. In 2022, Brazil recorded 6,429 deaths at the hands of the police ...

Civil Police officer Felipe Monteiro, 45, was flying over Vila Aliança, a slum on the ... being shot. The Rio de Janeiro Civil Police also criticized an ongoing case in Brazil´s Supreme Court ...

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.

Damaged structures are seen during a police operation to demolish properties allegedly belonging to drug trafficker Alvaro Malaquias Santa Rosa, known as Peixao, at Parada de Lucas, in Rio de Janeiro, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro quickly approaching, Brazil expects over half a million foreign tourists. Given the crime rate in Rio, local officials have declared war on major ...

Brazil’s federal police have raided the homes in Rio de Janeiro of suspects behind the smuggling of 2,000 assault rifles from Miami for a criminal organization in the city ...