Venezuelan refugees flood Brazil's border slums after mud-knee treks guided by smugglers, fleeing Maduro's foodless hell for rice packs and family reunions. Volunteers like Tulio build job pipelines ...

A walk through Rio de Janeiro’s Vidigal favela is a full sensory experience on any given day. The smell of grilled meat mixes with that of exhaust from motorcycle taxis traversing the slum’s corridors ...

During a shootout this weekend, 29 people were killed, including three policemen in a helicopter downed by gunfire. Today, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised a crackdown in the ...

“It’s good that people are no longer smoking dope in the streets, or openly carrying their weapons,” he told me. *** Brazil is a flourishing democracy and regional superpower, with a robust annual ...

More than 2,000 Brazilian soldiers stormed into a Rio de Janeiro slum complex Saturday with armored personnel carriers and helicopters in a bid to improve security two months before the start of the ...