In the most unorthodox of ways, Brazilians are stepping it up when it comes to responding to allegations of NSA spying. President Dilma Rousseff already cancelled an official visit to the White House ...

Michael Jackson’s Brazil video shoot nearly collapsed in 1996 after officials blocked it, leading his team to rely on gang protection in the Santa Marta favela. Michael Jackson’s music often carried a ...

Michael Jackson's politically intense video shoot in Brazil's Santa Marta favela came close to never happening — until gangs supposedly intervened to make it a reality. Jackson and his production team ...

Brazil’s criminal organizations have also extended their reach from the illegal economy to politics through such means as vote-buying, violence, intimidation and the funding of political candidates, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — 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 wounded.

On October 28, Rio de Janeiro’s police besieged the Penha favela for 15 hours, killing at least 121 people in the city’s worst massacre. Brazil’s right is hailing it as an anti-crime victory while ...

SAO PAULO — Police in Rio de Janeiro carried out raids against a criminal group Friday that allegedly operated a clandestine ride-hailing app that generated monthly profits of up to 1 million reais ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is "horrified" by the death toll from a massive police raid on Rio drug gangs, which left scores dead, one of his ministers said on Wednesday. The ...