Rocinha still has a reputation for gang crime and drugs ... Houses in Rochina favela in Rio de Janeiro Hundreds of new migrants arrive into Rio de Janeiro each day. Some of them come from abroad ...
No less disorientating are the labyrinthine networks of drug gangs, corrupt police forces and shady politicians ... Lopes (known as Nem), who ran the drug trade in Rio’s largest favela, Rocinha, ...
Thankfully we didn’t have any hassle during our trip. Rocinha Favela Art Gallery, Rio De Janeiro Something that was prevalent in the favela was the bold graffiti stamps of various gangs. There were ...
Rival gang members sparked a melee in a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday, leaving two people slashed and a hallway covered in blood. Authorities took seven suspects in custody after the out-of-control ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that’s home to most of the country’s elite and had been largely untouched by criminals, and police have ...
Scott Forbes, 51, was one of seven people handed an order for lifelong restriction (OLR) for abusing three children in a Glasgow drugs den dubbed the "beastie house". Forbes was jailed for at ...
On a call with reporters Friday, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. special envoy to Latin America, said Grenell will tell Maduro to take back all the Venezuelan criminals and Tren de Aragua gang ...
Less visible to the average Aurora resident is the violent gang crime that catapulted the city of about 400,000 to national prominence. "We’ve seen extortion, we’ve seen murders, we’ve seen ...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will discuss the possibility of deporting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador in an upcoming meeting with Salvadorean president Nayib Bukele ...
This time, though, the government would also aim to send members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to Salvadoran prisons, said Mauricio Claver-Carone, the State Department’s special envoy ...
President Donald Trump's envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, has traveled to Venezuela to deliver an in-person message to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro about accepting violent ...
Seven UK gang members who kidnapped, tortured and extorted a cryptocurrency investor have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms. The victim was repeatedly targeted, assaulted and forced to ...