Brazil is a flourishing democracy and regional superpower, with a robust annual growth rate and the world’s eighth-largest economy. Yet its favelas have remained stark symbols of lawlessness, gross ...

Brazilian security forces have occupied a Rio de Janeiro favela in a bid to remove drug gangs from the city ahead of the World Cup this summer. In a dawn raid on Sunday, police swarmed the Mare slum, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian army says gunmen have launched at least five attacks against troops in the Rio de Janeiro slum complex occupied on Saturday in a bid to improve security two months ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- About 150 special operations police officers are patrolling Brazil's biggest shantytown after a police officer was shot to death. Rio de Janeiro's police department says officer ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian soldiers and police exchanged gunfire with drug-gang members holed up in a massive slum complex Friday, and stood their ground, trapping the traffickers inside. About 800 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two documentaries set in Brazil that premiered last week at New York's Tribeca film festival take a raw look at how destitute Brazilian families grapple with hardships including ...

A woman sits next to a bagful of recycled aluminum cans in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. More than 3,000 police and soldiers raced into Brazil's biggest slum on Sunday, gaining control ...