A walk through Rio de Janeiro’s Vidigal favela is a full sensory experience on any given day. The smell of grilled meat mixes with that of exhaust from motorcycle taxis traversing the slum’s corridors ...

Brazilian favelas have grown to occupy an area of 92,300 hectares in the last 40 years, as per data from Mapbiomas’ annual mapping of urbanized areas, released Wednesday (Mar. 4). According to the ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - 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 ...

With millions of Brazilians living in hard-to-reach areas, consumers in these vibrant communities are often locked out of the digital world, particularly in areas such as e-commerce. Some 17 million ...

More than 3,000 police and soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers raced into Brazil's biggest slum before dawn Sunday, quickly gaining control of a shantytown ruled for decades by a heavily ...

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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) — They huddle in a tight circle, shaking seed-filled maracas and shuffling in time to a rhythm that has pulsed through their tribes for generations. The dancers raise their voices ...

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’s public ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A police officer was slain while on foot patrol in Brazil’s largest slum, military police said Friday. Diego Bruno Barbosa Henriques was shot and killed overnight Thursday as he ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - 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 ...