A police raid on a crime gang in Brazil dramatically escalated when a ... was flying over Vila Aliança, a slum on the west side of the city, when gang members opened fire on the aircraft.

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This type of violence has become a tedious certainty in Brazil’s slums. As the country prepares to host the two largest sporting events in the world, the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Summer ...

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.

With the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro quickly approaching, Brazil expects over half a million foreign tourists. Given the crime rate in Rio, local officials have declared war on major ...

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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 ...