A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven ... Comando Vermelho (Red Command), one of Brazil's largest drug trafficking organizations.

Claudio Edinger Marcos Rodrigo Neves remembers the bad old days in Rocinha, the largest favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro ... of success in the slums. Rodrigo and his wife have a newborn daughter ...

"SOS Favela was more than a project, it was a movement, a wave of solidarity not only in Rio de Janeiro, but throughout Brazil," says ... in Rio de Janeiro to the slums or ‘favelas’, the ...

A police operation in Rio de Janeiro slums known as favelas aimed at ... and another four died in a Salvador neighborhood. In 2022, Brazil recorded 6,429 deaths at the hands of the police ...

Mario Azevedo, Chief of Police, 21st Police Precinct, Rio de Janeiro “Police institutions ... residents of one of Rio’s infamous hillside slums, or favelas, were killed. We also document ...

Since the release of the animated movie Rio (2011), parents and kids might be forgiven for thinking the city on the coast of Brazil is populated ... the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1565.

The monument rests atop Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca National Park and is the most famous attraction in Rio de Janeiro, visited by nearly 2 million people each year. Recent travelers recommend ...

This is Rio's peak season. The city's most notable events — including Reveillon (New Year's Eve) and Carnival — take place during Brazil's ... the season when Rio de Janeiro sees the most ...

in Brazil, which covers almost this whole side of South America. Rodge: Is he trekking through the Amazon rainforest, or kayaking along the Amazon river? Freya: No Rodge, he’s in Rio de Janeiro.