A massive police operation targeting the Comando Vermelho (CV) drug gang in the densely populated Penha and Alemão favela complexes on Tuesday has resulted in at least 64 deaths, making it the ...

Both forces have tactical units, including the military police’s BOPE division, which has been involved in some of Brazil's ...

The Rio de Janeiro state government launched Operation Containment on October 28, a large-scale and intense police raid targeting the notorious Comando Vermelho (Red Command) criminal faction in the ...

The caiçara village of Trindade, in Paraty, 236 km from Rio de Janeiro, is under the influence of Comando Vermelho, according ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city’s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people ...

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A mission carried out on Friday by the Military and Civil Police in Rio de Janeiro against the city's largest criminal organization, the Comando Vermelho, resulted in at least seven deaths and 19 ...

A day after the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history, the country is still piecing together details about the raids against a powerful drug gang in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. The official ...

At first glance, a YouTube interview with Philippe Marques Pinto looks like one of dozens of others in Ukraine’s long-running campaign to recruit South American soldiers to bolster its ranks in the ...

The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history left at least 121 people dead this week in Rio de Janeiro. The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of the country's oldest and ...