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 ...

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 ...