Something delicious is happening in Brazil’s Bahia region. Here, where forests were once razed to make room for full-sun cocoa plantations, this corner of Brazil’s Atlantic Fo ...

ActionAid has joined dozens of allies in making a bold statement about the importance of public services to sustainable development and human rights. This statement comes in advance of some crucial ...

In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in Brazil’s deadliest-ever police operation. He held up a sign reading: “Children ...

Rio de Janeiro police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including four police officers, during a raid in low-income, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the ...

The use of large-scale force can be understood as a performative attempt to reassert territorial dominance. This aligns with what some scholars describe as the “punitive turn” in Latin America.

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people ...

Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

State police said the raids targeting a major drug gang had been planned exhaustively for more than two months, and were designed to drive suspects into a forested hillside where a special operations ...

Brazil's most lethal police raid against drug gangs resulted in at least 121 deaths, sparking criticism and calls for ...

At least 121 people were killed in Brazil in the deadliest police operation targeting organized crime and drug trafficking in ...