Hundreds of protesters have marched through Vila Cruzeiro favela, demanding the resignation of Rio de Janeiro state Gov.

Protesters marched in Vila Cruzeiro, where days earlier residents laid out dozens of bodies of people killed by police.

Hundreds of protesters marched through Vila Cruzeiro favela on Friday, calling for Rio de Janeiro state governor Cláudio ...

Authorities confiscated more than $2 million worth of weapons during a recent anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro, the deadliest in Brazil's history, the state government said Saturday.The Rio de Janeiro ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a massive operation in two favelas, resulting in 121 deaths, including four officers.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to protest Brazil’s deadliest police operation, which left at least 121 people dead. Demonstrators are demanding justice, an ...

Rio de Janeiro police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including four police officers, during a raid in low-income, ...

Police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including 4 police ...

At least 121 people were killed in Tuesday's operation, including four policemen, according to police. Castro has accused the federal government of abandoning Rio in its fight against organized crime, ...

"Tuesday was the day of horror. What we saw here was a massacre," said Ana Maria Pereira, 18, a resident of the neighborhood that is home mainly to Black and mixed-race people, and whose narrow alleys ...

In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in Brazil’s deadliest-ever police operation. He held up a sign reading: “Children ...