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 ...

A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

Residents of the Penha favela in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro laid out at least 64 bodies on one of the neighbourhood ...

Few outsiders have seen what happens inside Brazil’s favelas neighborhoods where crime, poverty, and fear collide. This report follows a military police unit as they patrol the slums of São Paulo, ...

Families in Rio de Janeiro have begun burying victims of the city’s deadliest gang raid. Residents in the Vila Cruzeiro ...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools intended to ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a massive operation in two favelas, resulting in 121 deaths, including four officers ...

Residents of a Rio de Janeiro community lined up their dead in harrowing scenes Wednesday after Brazil's bloodiest police ...