It became clear that Rio wanted the favela gone before the Olympics began. Da Penha, her husband, her daughter Natalia, and her mother, Antonia, lived in a spacious, three-story house with fruit ...

Rejane Guimarães, 38, who has lived in the Favela do Rola for 25 years, ... though there is no evidence that was the case in Favela da Rola. Mr. Freitas, ...

The police operation took place in the Favela da Mare area of Rio de Janeiro At least nine people have died in gun battles with drug dealers in a favela (shanty town) in the Brazilian city of Rio ...

More than 1,400 Brazilian police officers and Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's international airport in a major security operation ahead of this year's World Cup.

Antônio 'Nem' Lopes had 120 armed hitmen and was responsible for more than 60 per cent of the cocaine consumed in Rio. Then the law caught up with him ...

BBC News went to Maré favela to meet 11 year-old twins, Samira and Samir da Silva, to learn how violence affects their daily lives as they grow up in a Rio de Janeiro's shanty town.