Brazil’s Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, and the Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Claudio Castro, ...

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

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.

The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people, ...

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 ...

Church leaders, including the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal Orani Tempesta, and the heads of the Bishops’ Conference ...

Rio de Janeiro authorities launched a massive police raid against the Comando Vermelho criminal faction. The operation, named ...