RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city’s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people ...

Personal interviews indicate that two-thirds would leave the drug trade if they had a legal alternative Among the people ...

Inside the command centers: An ongoing battle Investigations by the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro show that gang leaders continue to issue orders from behind bars — through coded messages, letters ...

The authorities said the deadliest operation in Rio’s history had killed four police officers and at least 60 other people. It was an attack on “narco-terrorists,” the state governor said. By Ana ...

Residents surround the bodies of people killed the day before during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 29, ...

(São Paulo) – Police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including 4 police officers, during a raid in Rio de Janeiro, ...

(São Paulo) – The governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro should veto provisions in a new bill that would give civil police an economic incentive to kill suspects and would weaken forensic ...