RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — 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 ...

Mum Raquel Tomas claimed police in Brazil decapitated her son and then "hung the head from a tree like a trophy" and added "they executed" him without giving him a chance to defend himself ...

Brazil's Amazon has been experiencing a surge in violence as criminal gangs expand their presence in over a third of municipalities in the country's rainforest region, according to a report by the ...

In the most unorthodox of ways, Brazilians are stepping it up when it comes to responding to allegations of NSA spying. President Dilma Rousseff already cancelled an official visit to the White House ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Hundreds of eager children on school field trips shuffled into the Rio zoo on a typically sunny morning two weeks ago. Heading for a stage where actors were about to put on a ...

Brazilian drug gangs are bringing in far more money from fuel and other products than from cocaine trafficking, an expansion into formal economic sectors that has caused billions in tax losses and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Criminal gangs are ...