Robert Muggah is the co-founder of the Igarape Institute, a think and do tank in Brazil and a principal and co-founder of SecDev, a geopolitical and digital advisory group. At dawn on October 28, ...

Brazil will seek U.S. cooperation in fighting organized crime in its fuel sector, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Rio de Janeiro authorities said on Friday they had identified most of those killed in the deadliest ...

A prominent nonprofit group in Brazil says that criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and ...

Brazilian authorities arrested five police officers accused of trying to resell a rifle seized during a raid that left 122 dead last month in Rio de Janeiro, the state's military police said on Friday ...

Five Brazilian police officers were arrested for attempting to resell a seized rifle from a raid where 122 were killed, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -At least two people were killed and eight arrested on Wednesday during a police operation in the Vila Kennedy neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, the state civil police said in a ...

Rio de Janeiro witnessed its deadliest anti-drug operation, resulting in record police fatalities. Five officers died during the raid targeting Comando Vermelho gang members in the Penha and Alemao ...

At dawn on October 28, residents of Rio de Janeiro woke to the sound of gunfire. Battles continued throughout the day in the favelas of Alemão and Penha, as police mounted a huge operation targeting ...

As COP30 unfolds in Belem, environmental crimes linked to organized groups like Comando Vermelho are evident in the Amazon.

One hundred and twenty one people, among them four police officers, were killed in the raid on 28 October in Rio de Janeiro. The governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Claudio Castro, described the police ...

It was the fourth such massacre carried out under Governor Cláudio Castro – but it was by far the most barbaric. Many of the men had been shot in the back of the head, clearly executed. Their ...