Religion serves as a powerful organizing force for crime gangs in Brazil and much of Latin America, offering a mixture of ...

Vital says Afro-Brazilian Umbanda and Candomblé religious houses have been shut down in surrounding neighbourhoods too, with gangsters sometimes drawing messages on the walls such as "Jesus is ...

Closely tied to Italy’s ’Ndrangheta and organised crime groups across the Balkans, the Primeiro Comando da Capital is thought to be Latin America’s largest gang.

Drug-dealing behind two recent violent deaths in Greater Lisbon; Both victims targeted by Brazilian drug gangs ...

BRASILIA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Thirteen people have died in gang violence in the past four days in Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state in the Brazilian Amazon, where gang members have clashed ...

Digital gambling could spell the end for a lottery run by criminal gangs that has been a fixture of Brazilian life for decades. By Ana Ionova Photographs by Dado Galdieri Ana Ionova and Dado ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police killed six suspects Friday during an operation to dismantle a gang accused of planning large-scale bank robberies, authorities said. Police in the southern state of ...

While Brazil's Amazon region has for decades struggled with conflicts over land as farms expanded into the forest, the more recent violence is connected to disputes among gangs to control key drug ...