Residents of the favela are distraught ... recently for the first time in its 20-year history. “Rocinha is at war.” With the execution of three top traffickers by rivals in August, and ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Favela Wars War for drug territory is raging in Rio de Janeiro between Police and Dealers. Neither will be satisfied until the last slum is occupied.

The CESEC study shows how the perpetual war between organized crime and police in the favelas, in addition to violence, has an insidious and often hidden impact on favela economies. Losses to ...

And favela residents often talk of people being ... Brazil’s police officers feel that they are fighting a war that they can only win through preemptive violence. The lack of training ...

Rio authorities said 16 suspected criminals were killed in confrontations with police in Complexo do Alemao favela, or low-income community, along with a police officer and a woman. The raid ...

Rio de Janeiro’s favela of Rocinha sees makeshift dwellings spiral down the mountain, all but crashing into the turquoise ...