Coming out of Rio de ... Cultural Heritage of Rio de Janeiro – a milestone that honours the dance's rich cultural expression and the unbreakable spirit of the favelas. But the story of Passinho ...

Rio’s beaches Copacabana and Ipanema need little introduction. Instead, go to the locals’ beach Praia Vermelha in the ...

A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums ... by residents showed that Rocinha, in the south zone, was surrounded by police on Monday night before the ...

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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 Brazilian rare earths mine backed by American investors illustrates China’s grip over the strategic minerals that underpin ...

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 ...

Cain recalls meeting one mother in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, whose two children had been murdered. "It hit me deeply," he says. "To find out how she picked her son up in nothing but a bag of bones ...

Ashley travels to Brazil to meet young men living in some of Rio’s most notorious favelas who are caught between the deadly grip of drug cartels and heavily armed criminal militia. Show more ...

The monument rests atop Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca National Park and is the most famous attraction in Rio de Janeiro, visited by nearly 2 million people each year. Recent travelers recommend ...