As the Rio de Janeiro security forces continue moving community policing units into slums long controlled by criminal gangs, InSight brings an on-the-ground view about what the “pacification” process ...

When the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) took over the brightly-colored hillside favelas in São Paulo, Brazil’s most powerful gang also brought the criminal underworld under ...

Charles Oliveira still lives in his old neighborhood, which is only two streets away from the Vicente de Carvalho favela in Guaruja. Known as the poor and crime-infested part of town, this favela ...

More than 1,000 Brazilian police backed by helicopters and naval armored vehicles took over a favela near Rio de Janeiro's international airport Sunday, less than three months before the World Cup.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Kids surrounded by crime in Rio de Janeiro's slums are throwing jabs again, off the streets, as a boxing school has reopened after pandemic lockdowns started easing ...