Both forces have tactical units, including the military police’s BOPE division, which has been involved in some of Brazil's ...

The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history left at least 121 people dead this week in Rio de Janeiro. The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of the country's oldest and ...

A Brazilian gang leader who tried to escape from prison by dressing up as his daughter when she visited him has been found dead in his cell, according to Brazil officials. Officials told BBC that ...

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 ...

A Brazilian gang leader who tried to escape prison dressed as his daughter has been found dead in his cell Tuesday, according to Rio de Janeiro prisons authorities. An investigation has been opened.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and are now operating in nearly half of the region’s municipalities, according to a report published ...

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 wounded ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s government said Monday it plans to send 400 police officers to Brazil next month for training as gang violence overwhelms the troubled Caribbean country. Currently, ...

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 ...

Gangs expand to nearly half the towns in the Brazilian Amazon, report finds A prominent nonprofit group in Brazil says that criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and ...