Both forces have tactical units, including the military police’s BOPE division, which has been involved in some of Brazil's ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city’s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people wounded.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead drew protests for excessive force Wednesday and ...

Michael Jackson's politically intense video shoot in Brazil's Santa Marta favela came close to never happening — until gangs supposedly intervened to make it a reality. Jackson and his production team ...

Behind the bronze, silver and gold curtain of the 2016 Olympics sits the favelas of Rio — neighborhoods stained by poverty, murder and gangs. More than 11,000 supreme athletes from across the world ...

Residents protest after a police operation against alleged drug traffickers at the Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 6, 2021. Credit - Mauro Pimentel—AFP/Getty Images When Jair ...

Brazilian soldiers deployed Friday to help Rio de Janeiro police after heavily armed drug traffickers rampaged through the country's most heavily populated favela, spraying bullets in the built-up ...

SAO PAULO, May 5 (UPI) -- Brazil's seaside metropolis Rio de Janeiro -- rocked in recent weeks by violence and gang slayings -- will get the military reinforcements it needs to combat the latest wave ...

Brazilian soldiers were deployed to Rio de Janeiros crime-plagued Rocinha favela for the second consecutive day Wednesday to support police after shootouts between rival crime gangs. Heavily-armed ...