Brazil’s deadliest police raid left 132 dead in Rio de Janeiro as officers clashed with gangs using drones and explosives in ...

In Brazil's deadliest police raids, 121 people including four officers were killed. Families mourned at the morgue, while ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid targeting a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro left at least 121 people dead ...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools intended to ...

Families lined up at a morgue on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro to identify relatives killed in Brazil's deadliest ever police ...

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 Rio de Janeiro police raid on the Comando Vermelho gang killed at least 64 people, the highest death toll in the ...

A day after the deadliest police operation in Brazil’s history, authorities are still uncovering details of the raid aimed at dismantling one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous drug cartels. The ...

Authorities said the raid was aimed at enforcing nearly 100 judicial warrants against alleged members of the Comando Vermelho ...

A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

Buenos Aires, Oct 29, (dpa/GNA) – Residents of the Penha favela in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, laid out at least 64 bodies on one of the neighbourhood’s main streets on Wednesday, after a ...