For the first time, Brazil's notorious slums, after being cleared of drug dealers and other criminals, recieved tourist visitors in a pilot project initiated in the country. For the first time ...

Photographers for AP, Reuters, and Getty recently captured some gorgeous photos of soccer being played in the slums of Brazil. Here are our favorites including these two boys watching other kids ...

Brazil, this week in honor of World Youth Day. The fourth day of his trip brought him to Varginha, a notorious slum that is colloquially referred to as the "Gaza Strip," in reference to its high ...

Rio de Janeiro's famous favelas, the hillside slums that have been home to its poorest residents since the 19th century, are changing. The Brazilian state had given them up to the rule of brutal ...

Neymar’s journey to a record-breaking transfer fee of US$262 million started in a poor district of southern Brazil, a few blocks from the local dump. A spectacular move from Barcelona to Paris ...

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.