Human rights groups criticize the military-style raids and call for city services to be brought to the slums, and education and jobs for its residents. In another speech later in Rio de Janeiro ...

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 ...

It was at the foot of the Sugarloaf that Portuguese explorers founded the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1565 ... anthems suitable for any carnival take center stage as greats, including Gilberto ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Novak Djokovic was in Rio de Janeiro ... Kuerten for the inauguration of the public court in the Rocinha slum, one of Latin America's largest. He will also face the former ...

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 ...