Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has designated Brazil's criminal groups Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital, ...

Protesters marched in Vila Cruzeiro, where days earlier residents laid out dozens of bodies of people killed by police.

The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people ...

Authorities confiscated more than $2 million worth of weapons during a recent anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro, the deadliest in Brazil's history, the state government said Saturday.The Rio de Janeiro ...

Families in Rio de Janeiro have begun burying victims of the city’s deadliest gang raid. Residents in the Vila Cruzeiro ...

A day after the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history, the country is still piecing together details about the raid ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a massive operation in two favelas, resulting in 121 deaths, including four officers.

The aftermath of Brazil's deadliest police operation, targeting the Comando Vermelho gang, has led to widespread protests.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools intended to ...

Families lined up at a morgue on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro to identify relatives killed in Brazil's deadliest ever police ...

The Rio de Janeiro gang, the target of a bloody police operation, was born in prison almost half a century ago ...

Rio de Janeiro: At least 64 people, including four police officers, were killed in a large-scale security operation targeting ...