The world has gained a rare glimpse inside one of Brazil’s most notorious slums where people brandish guns and grenades like fashion accessories and sell drugs in open-air markets for “insane” prices.

In Brazil, 12 million families -- up to 60 million people -- live in slums, known as "favelas" in Portuguese, and 55 million people do not have access to a sewage system. Until now, the Catholic ...

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 ...

The residents of Rio de Janeiro's slums are accustomed to seeing the police come in with guns blazing. But in Santa Marta, one of Rio's oldest slums, or favelas, the police are trying an entirely ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Edmilson Venturelli has something different to offer slum kids accustomed to the gunfire, police sirens and gangsta rap that echo through the city's largest shantytown — Bee-thoven ...

Rio police will boost their presence in a violent slum controlled by drug gangs as authorities crack down on crime in the final countdown to the World Cup, an official source said Tuesday. The source ...

A resident is framed by laundry hanging out to dry in the Paraisopolis favela, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO – After years of economic ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Top officials from Rio de Janeiro said Friday they want elite federal police and possibly army troops sent to the city to help quell a wave of violence in so-called “pacified” ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday issued the first social manifesto of his young pontificate, telling slum dwellers in Brazil that the world's rich must do much more to wipe out vast ...