In Brazil, 12 million families -- up to 60 million people -- live in slums, known as "favelas" in Portuguese, and 55 million people do not have access to a sewage system. Until now, the Catholic ...

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Slum dwellers rioted after the arrest of drug dealers in a Sao Paulo shantytown Wednesday, burning vehicles and tires, pelting police with rocks and briefly shutting down a major ...

The police blitzes in this Olympic city's biggest slums are meant to show the world that Rio is winning the fight against violent drug gangs that have ruled the shantytowns for decades. With this ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Edmilson Venturelli has something different to offer slum kids accustomed to the gunfire, police sirens and gangsta rap that echo through the city's largest shantytown — Bee-thoven ...

Against a backdrop of jumbled shacks seemingly piled atop each other, the dancers run in place with studied movements, then collapse to the floor in steady succession. Covid-19 has hit hard in the ...

(Updates with military raid) By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, May 2 (Reuters) - Soldiers backed by armored cars and a helicopter raided a Rio de Janeiro slum on Wednesday as a top human rights group ...