Two weeks later, while in Recife, Brazil, De Abreu responded “no” when asked on an application for a US non-immigrant B2 ...

The director of more than 20 films, including “Xica da Silva” and “Bye Bye Brazil,” Diegues was a leading figure in Cinema Novo, a movement that emerged in the 1960s and used film to critique social ...

One victim was visiting Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue. Another hopped into an Uber for a night out in ...

Prosecutors in Manhattan have charged the husband of a slain New York City art dealer in a murder-for-hire plot in Brazil.

Brazilian drug gangs are bringing in far more money from fuel and other products than from cocaine trafficking, an expansion ...

This area is a mix of 14 favelas together. Highly risky and dangerous, no tourists can go there,The mission was to be the ...

Under President Daniel Noboa, the prisons have been declared “security zones” and are under the direct control of the police ...

Religion serves as a powerful organizing force for crime gangs in Brazil and much of Latin America, offering a mixture of ...

"Sintonia", Netflix's popular Brazilian crime drama series, is set to conclude with its fifth and final season. Created by ...

We have an inherent fascination with true crime, reveling in the real-life stories of killers, kidnappings, and unsolved mysteries. These translate to both gripping docuseries and dramatizations ...

Temps soar in Brazil's summer (from December to March). Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a... It was a sunny September morning in Rio de ...