Complexo do Alemão

By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In 2014, on average six people died each day in Brazil through involvement of...

By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Eight out of Rio de Janeiro's most wanted sixteen criminals had already been arrested...

By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Crime numbers have significantly dropped in communities with a Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) between...

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – A meeting between Rio de Janeiro’s state security secretary, Jose Mariano Beltrame, and top military...

By Sarah Brown, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The 2014 elections will take place on October 5th, and will see the election the...

By George Utley, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A new Nave do Conhecimento (Education Center) was unveiled in May at the Bairro Carioca,...

By Benjamin Parkin, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Police carried out a major operation in Cidade de Deus (City of God), Zona...

By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - It is time again to look back over the year and review some of the...

By Matthew Elliott, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Rocinha has benefited from government investments in recent years but the latest PAC 2 plan...

By Anna Kaiser, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Around 2,000 residents of Rio de Janeiro's Complexo do Maré favela and hundreds of its...

By Carl Lucktoss, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cricket has come a long way in Rio de Janeiro since an enthusiastic conversation in...

By Andrew Willis, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A number of celebrities visiting Brazil for the country’s famous Carnival celebrations have taken...

By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The semi-public Brazilian energy corporation headquartered in Rio, Petrobras, looks set to...

By Ben Tavener, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – At least two people were killed after officers from Rio’s 27th Military Police Battalion launched...