Claudio Edinger Marcos Rodrigo Neves remembers the bad old days in Rocinha, the largest favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro ... The comparable figure in the city’s richer districts is just ...

The campaign was launched in March 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic began to move from touristic neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro to the slums or ‘favelas’, the dense, multilayered ...

Brazilian police backed by troops occupied a massive favela next to Rio de ... the slum ahead of the occupation, which was announced on Friday. “This is a strategic area for us, a city within ...

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (CNN ... also said he mobilized all police in the city to try to restore order and to step up police presence in 17 of Rio's slums. Agencia Brasil reported that the ...

A police operation in Rio de Janeiro slums known as favelas aimed at “locating and arresting members of criminal groups” has left 10 people killed, according to local media reports ...