By bne intellinews Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed shock at the fatalities from a massive police ...

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Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than 12,000 favelas, or ...

Buenos Aires, Oct 29, (dpa/GNA) – Residents of the Penha favela in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, laid out at least 64 bodies on one of the neighbourhood’s main streets on Wednesday, after a ...

Church leaders, including the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal Orani Tempesta, and the heads of the Bishops’ Conference ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left ...

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for action against organized crime that does not endanger police or civilians, as ...

After what is being criticized as Brazil’s latest example of the excessive use of force, at least 50 bodies of mostly topless ...

Police raids in Brazil have killed more than 100 people, including four officers, making it the deadliest police operation in ...

Brazilian police hit the Rio gang hard in a raid that left 119 dead, and which human rights groups called a "disaster." ...