eople stand next to the bodies with a sign that reads "Claudio Castro (Rio de Janeiro governor) assassin and terrorist" in the Penha neighborhood a day after a massive anti-gang police operation took ...

In Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil’s biggest and most iconic cities, the balance of power may be shifting from militias to one of the city’s oldest criminal groups. While fighting intensified in 2022, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooking Rio de Janeiro was illuminated in Brazil's yellow and green national colours on Thursday as the city put the finishing touches ...

This article focuses on sex work relations in the Mangue, one of Rio de Janeiro’s red light districts in the 1920s. It follows multiple simultaneous trajectories that converge in Rio’s changing urban ...

At least 132 people have died in a massive police raid aimed at organized crime in Rio de Janeiro, the regional public defender’s office said on Wednesday. Among the dead are four Brazilian police ...

The death toll in Rio’s deadliest police operation in history rose to 132 people, the state authorities say, sparking outrage and a reckoning. By Ana Ionova Reporting from Rio de Janeiro. The bodies ...

eople stand next to the bodies with a sign that reads "Claudio Castro (Rio de Janeiro governor) assassin and terrorist" in the Penha neighborhood a day after a massive anti-gang police operation took ...