A tough stance against organized crime? One year after a massacre that left more than 130 people dead, a new law aims to ...

Cooperation had already been intensifying. In May, during the 13th Bolivia-Brazil Joint Commission on Drugs and Related ...

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, June 25 (Reuters) - Right-wing candidates in Brazil have vowed to import El Salvador's "Bukele model," building prisons and cracking down on crime like that country's iron-fisted ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva unveiled a pilot plan Friday to expand the federal government’s role in fighting organized crime in Rio de Janeiro, spotlighting a major ...

A new anti-crime bill in Brazil targets the son of a jailed Red Command gang leader who is using his music to advocate for his father’s freedom. But the measure is unlikely to have much impact on ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has followed through with some of his campaign promises to crack down on crime. His administration has issued a decree allowing for greater gun ownership as a means ...

Brazil’s “criminal economy” does not appear on any national balance sheet. Yet the cost of violence, contraband, tax evasion and environmental crime can be measured in the tens of billions of dollars ...

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For the first time in NFL history, the league is bringing its product to Brazil. Sao Paulo is the site for the first-ever NFL contest in the country, as the Eagles and the Packers are going ...