Brazilian police are preparing to occupy one of the deadliest shantytown complexes in Rio de Janeiro, hoping to drive out drug gangs ahead of next year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. It's the ...

Rio de Janeiro’s mayor has announced new funding and a new name for a program meant to complement the city’s police “pacification” with increased social services, but it will take more than a facelift ...

Officials in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area are increasingly complaining that the so-called “pacification” of favelas is displacing violence to the city’s periphery. The hard evidence for this ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – About 1,000 Brazilian police officers have begun invading a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's international airport, the latest impoverished area to be targeted for the ...