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 ...

The residents of Rio de Janeiro's slums, or favelas, are accustomed to seeing the police come in with guns blazing. But in Santa Marta, the police are trying an entirely different approach ...

Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A police officer was shot and killed in a Rio de Janeiro hillside shantytown that’s become a symbol of the Olympic city’s showcase slum pacification program, the state ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A police officer was slain while on foot patrol in Brazil's largest slum, military police said Friday.

Heavily armed Brazilian army troops and police launched a pre-dawn crackdown Saturday on gangs operating out of slums across Rio de Janeiro, following a steep rise in crime.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to Rio de Janeiro slum residents on Thursday that new social and security projects would mark the end of years of state neglect and violent ...

Actually, this year it was just 16-year-old Lucas Valentin playing the role of Jesus in the "Via Sacra" - a passion play depicting the life of Christ - but for many slum dwellers the symbolism is ...

Brazilian rapper MV Bill added his voice to a chorus of criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro for downplaying the gravity of the new coronavirus epidemic in a video clip that urges people to ...