The gang's days of playing Robin Hood to locals are over as it shifts its focus to the internaitonal cocaine trade.

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 week, we hold the line on more military strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific, mull the conviction of a Bolivian drug czar in the US, and look at the deadliest police raid yet in a Rio favela ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro police demolished on Tuesday a facility they dubbed a "drug trafficking resort," which they said was used as a meeting point for drug traffickers in the Brazilian city.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian security forces launched a massive daylong operation on drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, setting off fierce gun battles that left dozens dead and many wounded, ...

Brazilian soldiers were deployed to Rio de Janeiros crime-plagued Rocinha favela for the second consecutive day Wednesday to support police after shootouts between rival crime gangs. Heavily-armed ...

Residents of a favela in Rio de Janeiro lined up more than 40 bodies at a plaza in their low-income neighborhood on Wednesday, a day after the bloodiest police operation in the city's history, AFP ...