The director of ‘I’m Still Here,’ heir to the founder of the largest bank in Brazil, boasts a distinguished career, numerous ...

Gabriela Vallim reflects on the booming interest in baile funk in the UK, and explains the complex social history behind the Brazilian sound and why it's important to recognise its impact as a tool of ...

Rio de Janeiro police demolished on Tuesday a facility they dubbed a "drug trafficking resort," which they said was used as a ...

Thousands of Brazilian army troops raided Rio de Janeiro ... the first anniversary of the opening of the Olympic Games. Five favelas were targeted by around 1,300 police and 3,600 troops in ...

A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums ... of the Comando Vermelho (Red Command), one of Brazil's largest drug trafficking organizations.

In the late 1800s, Teresa Urrea was a superstar. She was a ‘curandera,’ or healer, a revolutionary, and a feminist. At only 19 years old she was exiled from Mexico by dictator Porfirio Diaz ...

The world premiere of Daan Veldhuizen’s documentary The Promise will open the festival, which includes fiction, documentary ...

Acclaimed actor Robert De Niro plays not one but two lead characters in the biographical crime drama “ The Alto Knights “.

The Brazilian Parliament is called National Congress. Besides the prerogative of making laws, the National Congress is responsible for the oversight of every accounting, financial and budgetary ...