Few outsiders have seen what happens inside Brazil’s favelas neighborhoods where crime, poverty, and fear collide. This report follows a military police unit as they patrol the slums of São Paulo, ...

Before they can even start the grim task of tallying coronavirus deaths in Brazil's favelas, Ana Paula Sales and her team must negotiate access with the drug traffickers and armed militias that run ...

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

Andre Dread was on his rounds handing out food parcels to poor families in City of God, one of Brazil's most notorious slums, in May when the familiar sound of gunfire from a police raid sent him ...

Brazil's "Red Command" drug cartel is considered a plague by the government. But for the people of the favelas they control, Red Command *is* the government. They’re the de facto leadership of the ...

Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Documentary. Bonus features: Behind the documentary ; AfroReggae music video. Documents how former drug-trafficker Anderson Sa, and Jose Junior's Grupo ...

At just 18, Kallen Roy embarked on an unforgettable journey to Brazil, opting for a £6.50-a-night Airbnb in one of Rio de Janeiro’s iconic favelas. Despite the area’s dangerous reputation, Kallen ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the ...