RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rolf Glaser zips his motorbike up the twisting alleyways of Vidigal slum, past a bunch of cheerful, gun-packing drug traffickers, and emerges at a cliffside plateau next to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Five years ago, Rio de Janeiro’s “favela” hillside slums had such a bad rap that they were virtual no-go zones, where drug lords laid down the law and outsiders set foot at their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police exchanged fire with gunmen Thursday when they raided one of Rio de Janeiro’s slums to arrest alleged ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - When residents of Rio de Janeiro's mammoth Rocinha slum heard of government plans to build a wall around parts of their community, opposition to the idea quickly mounted.

More than 3,000 police and soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers raced into Brazil's biggest slum before dawn Sunday, quickly gaining control of a shantytown ruled for decades by a heavily ...

Police raided gang-ruled shantytowns Wednesday, setting off clashes that killed 14 people as authorities try to halt a wave of violent crime that has rattled rich and poor alike in a city that Brazil ...

A police raid in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Vila Cruzeiro, pictured in November 2010, targeted drug traffickers believed to have fled from another slum nearby ...

Brazil will send more officers back into a Rio de Janeiro slum amid public outcry over a 10-year-old boy killed during a police shootout, officials said Sunday. Police say Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A police officer was shot and killed in a Rio de Janeiro hillside shantytown that’s become a symbol of the Olympic city’s showcase slum pacification program, the state’s public ...

Their professionalism and skill is only exceeded by their admitted corruption. <br><br>Meanwhile, the narcotics industry is alive and well in Rio's slums; estimates are that in some areas of the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Brazil have exchanged fire with gunmen during a raid on one of Rio de Janeiro’s slums to arrest alleged drug traffickers, and authorities say 13 people were killed in ...