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.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Protesters urging investments in basic sanitation services in Brazil’s largest “favela” hillside slum have faced off with a rival group of slum dwellers, some waving flags of the ...

CAXIAS DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) - Hundreds of tightly packed zinc-roofed shacks dot a hillside slum, one of thousands of "favelas" that are home to samba stars, drug lords and millions of poor ...

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 ...

Brazilian security forces have occupied a Rio de Janeiro favela in a bid to remove drug gangs from the city ahead of the World Cup this summer. In a dawn raid on Sunday, police swarmed the Mare slum, ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

Brazil is a flourishing democracy and regional superpower, with a robust annual growth rate and the world’s eighth-largest economy. Yet its favelas have remained stark symbols of lawlessness, gross ...