The residents of Rio de Janeiro's Santo Amaro favela celebrated the inauguration of a new skate park on Saturday (March 22). The Ademafia Institute, an NGO, worked in partnership with two other ...

A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals ...

The decision in the “ADPF of the Favelas” expands federal oversight in Rio’s public security and sets new rules for policing ...

Entering the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, the taxi driver’s warning is stark: “Some of the favelas are so dangerous, even the ...

The United Arab Emirates says it wants to pump more money into Brazil in the future, with investments focusing on the raw materials sector and infrastructure. The total amount of investment ...

An anti-drug raid by Rio de Janeiro law enforcement agents Thursday left 24 suspects and one police officer dead in the precarious Jacareizinho favela. It was the deadliest single police operation ...

SÃO PAULO – A Brazilian tourist died while visiting the Christ the Redeemer monument in Rio de Janeiro ... Unfortunately, the infrastructure of the monument is insufficient to handle the ...

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DE-CIX, a prominent global operator of Internet Exchanges , has inaugurated two new IXs in Brazil—DE-CIX São Paulo and DE-CIX Rio de Janeiro—marking a significant enhancement to the country’s digital ...

The Supreme Federal Court's decision, announced on the 3rd of November, shed light on measures aimed at reducing excessive police violence during military operations against organized crime within the ...

Cities are particular: You would never mistake a favela in Rio de Janeiro for downtown Los ... These are typically measures of infrastructure, characterized by economies of scale that result ...