Brazil will seek US help to combat organized crime as part of ongoing trade negotiations, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said Thursday, after a police operation targeting tax evasion and money ...

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 ...

Gunmen in a car opened fire in November at São Paulo's airport and killed a cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a daytime hit that was one of Brazil's most shocking recent crimes. Police at the scene ...

Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. More than 400 elite federal troops ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent ...

Netflix has cracked the Criminal Code, renewing the hit crime drama exactly one month after Season 2 dropped on the streamer. Coming out of Netflix Brazil, the series is produced by Heitor Dhalia’s ...

The arrest of a popular funk singer in Brazil on suspicion of glorifying a powerful crime gang has revived a long-standing debate over the criminalization of a genre born in Rio de Janeiro's gritty ...

EXCLUSIVE: Two of Brazil‘s key production houses are teaming for true crime. Diosual Entertainment and Medialand Production have struck a strategic partnership to co-produce multiple true crime doc ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Gunmen in a car opened fire last November at Sao Paulo’s airport and killed a cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a daytime hit that was one of Brazil’s most shocking recent crimes. Police ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Robert Muggah is affiliated with Igarapé Institute and ...