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 ...

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 ...

He's lived his entire life in this favela — a word that refers to a native Brazilian shrub — and has been gardening just as long. "My mother taught me all about how to take care of plants ...

But in Rio's more than 1,000 low-income favelas, their high cost and heavy weight meant they weren't even considered a possibility. Jessica Tapre repairs a green roof in a bus stop in Benfica, Rio de ...