Brazilian police are trying out drones that could be used to track criminal activity in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, following a region-wide trend of using unmanned aircraft to monitor organized crime.

A new study indicates that the number of homicides in Rio de Janeiro favelas that have been “pacified” by elite police units has fallen by 50 percent in less than three years. You Trust our Reporting, ...

Some 1,300 police swept through the Jacarezinho slum, with about 90,000 inhabitants, where 28 people were killed last May in the deadliest security raid in Rio’s ...

The NGO Central Única das Favelas (CUFA), which promotes cultural initiatives in favelas throughout Brazil for 25 years, and Favela Holding, a group of companies that work to boost development in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — As authorities in Brazil tackled crime earlier this decade, opening Rio de Janeiro’s hillside favelas to tourists seemed like a winning idea. The views are breathtaking, the slum ...

Rio de Janeiro's state government deployed hundreds of police officers early Monday to three of the city's sprawling, low-income neighborhoods, saying it aimed to clamp down on organized crime groups.

Every year, thousands of the sightseers who flock to Rio de Janeiro visit favelas. The city’s squatter settlements are the object of the tourists’ curiosity—"poorism,” the practice is called. Favelas ...