Brazil’s ongoing favela wars have taken a dramatic turn for the bloody, prompting the government to send military troops into Rio de Janiero’s notorious Rocinha. This is the most violent of the city’s ...

This special report details Brazil's deadliest police operation in Rio de Janeiro, targeting the powerful Commando Vermelho, or Red Command, drug cartel. Rio's state governor, Claudio Castro, stated ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas are mobilizing to make sure the voices of the world's informal settlements aren't left out of global climate talks. The 2025 ...

High above Rio de Janeiro’s famous beaches, sprawling hillside neighborhoods known as favelas have grown into dense communities housing millions. Many began as improvised settlements built by freed ...

It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro's Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva's roof. Students from both the neighborhood ...

A woman sitting in the lotus position wears a shirt that reads in Portuguese, "Be strong like a mother from the outskirts" while meditating during a Transformation Project yoga class in the Rocinha ...