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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If you think of Rio de Janeiro, you think of its granite peaks ... No, not to facilitate TikTok likes, but to reforest areas above the favelas to reduce the risk of landslides and prevent the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rio Tinto Group has held talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about developing one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposits, in the latest sign of the miner’s enthusiasm for ...

Alex de Minaur took on two opponents at Hard Rock Stadium on Monday: João Fonseca and the crowd. Each presented its own challenge for the Aussie, the first a physically demanding tennis match and ...