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

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 ...

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

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

Gunmen in a car opened fire in November at São Paulo's airport and killed a cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a daytime hit that was one of Brazil's most shocking recent crimes. Police at the scene ...

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

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.

The proposed law, part of the "anti-faction bill", would treat cryptocurrencies like foreign currencies and financial ...

In 2013, a small group of Brazilian forestry engineers ecologists, and other scientists formed a special operations unit. Known as the Grupo de Especialização de Fiscalização (GEF), the unit operates ...

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

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 ...