New details which have emerged in the aftermath of Brazil's deadliest police operation are casting doubts over whether the ...

Families in Rio de Janeiro have begun burying victims of the city’s deadliest gang raid. Residents in the Vila Cruzeiro favela are accusing police of excessive force and extrajudicial killings.

Hundreds of protesters have marched through Vila Cruzeiro favela, demanding the resignation of Rio de Janeiro state Gov. Cláudio Castro.

Among the reports collected by ombudsmen of the state’s Public Defender’s Office family members say that innocent people were killed or arrested, and women report being harassed by police officers.

An Argentine-built FAL rifle was found in the Comando Vermelho (CV) arsenal seized in two Rio de Janeiro favelas after this week's large-scale, deadly raid. In addition, the gang's brutal torture syst ...

The sun had only just begun to inch over Rio de Janeiro’s horizon when it began. On October 28, in the tangled shantytown of ...

After a massive police raid on a notorious drug gang, residents of a Rio de Janeiro favela spent all night collecting bodies ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the dead on Thursday, with residents left reeling by the scenes of carnage and ...