to sweep away Rio de Janeiro’s criminal gangs. Operation Rio forces engaged in dozens of occupations—many lasting several days—of the favelas in the city of Rio as well as outlying areas ...

Religion serves as a powerful organizing force for crime gangs in Brazil and much of Latin America, offering a mixture of ...

Federal officials charged Daniel Sikkema on Tuesday with conspiring to murder his ex-husband, the renowned art dealer Brent Sikkema, who was found stabbed to death in his Rio de Janeiro townhouse in ...

Federal government and Rio de Janeiro State authorities agreed last week to create a joint working group to target the cash flow of criminal rings operating in the area, Agencia Brasil reported.

A 51-year-old Argentine traveler who was mugged and shot in the head in a Rio de Janeiro favela on Dec ... controlled by the Comando Vermelho criminal group, at which time he was shot in the ...

Seventeen people - including children and the elderly - were held against their will inside a bus at the Novo Rio bus terminal in Rio de Janeiro ... Another man said the criminal started shooting ...

She grew up in the rundown fringes of Rio de Janeiro, where her godparents would ... have failed to stamp out the lottery and the criminal gangs that run it, the analog game now appears to be ...

It was at the foot of the Sugarloaf that Portuguese explorers founded the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1565. And, just as Rio in its early days was subject to attack by (mostly French) pirates and ...

In September 2024, Vida Livre Institute, a wildlife rescue center, received an unusual call from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden staff. They were sending over two monkeys who were behaving ...