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

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police confirmed on Saturday that another officer wounded in Brazil’s deadliest anti-drug operation has died, bringing the number of police fatalities to ...

Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys. Rifle shots cracking in heavy crossfire. Helicopters and weaponized drones firing from above. Soldiers in military gear engaged in violent combat.

The Brazilian crime gangster series Rulers of Fortune has been handed a swift official season 2 pickup by Netflix after it ...

Police arrest a suspect during a raid against alleged drug traffickers of the Comando Vermelho criminal organization in the ...

The US is expected to soon designate Brazil’s two largest drug gangs as terrorist organizations, a star prosecutor in the ...

None of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Gunmen in a car opened fire last November at Sao Paulo’s airport and killed a cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a daytime hit that was one of Brazil’s most shocking recent crimes. Police ...

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was taken into federal police custody on Saturday before a planned supporters' vigil near his home, ending months of house arrest as he appeals a Supreme ...

The president is struggling to handle the political fallout, as he attempts to reconcile international concerns over human rights violations with growing public support for a crackdown on crime.

Pedro Waddington and Rebeca Diniz’s “Fuse” (“Precisamos Falar”) begins with a horrifying sequence: Three teenage cousins ...