A pedestrian-filled street in São Paulo.

Trying to Understand Brazil’s 20% Homicide Rate Decline

Brazil is the world’s murder capital. No other country even comes close. That is ...

Military operation at favela Kelson's, in Rio de Janeiro. - Fernando Frazão/ABr

Brazil Breaks Own Record with 63,880 Murders in 2017 or 175 per Day

Brazil had a record number of murders last year, with homicides rising 3.7% from ...

Brazilian Army on a Rio slum - Vladimir Platonow/ABr

Army Back in Rio, This Time Taking Over the Security of the City

Brazil’s military has taken full control of security in Rio de Janeiro and the ...

Prisoners get medical after a rebellion at the Colônia Agroindustrial prison in Goiânia

Nine Killed, Two Decapitated, 100 escape, in Brazil’s Latest Prison Riot

At least nine people have died in clashes between rival gangs in one of ...

A prison in Brazil - Wilson Dias/ABr

Gang Country: In This Brazilian Prison Guards Do Not Enter

Brazil’s representatives had to explain at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human ...

7 Minors Are Massacred and Dismembered in Rio, But Brazil Barely Notices

The community of Del Castilho, in the North side of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ...

Terror in Brazil: Prison Gangs Kill 19 in Rio

Rio de Janeiro’s authorities cannot agree on what led criminals to launch, at dawn ...

Sí£o Paulo, Brazil, Refuses Federal Help After Gang Attacks Leaving 9 Dead

Gang violence that is terrorizing São Paulo, Brazil’s biggest and richest state, may require ...