Rio’s Mayor Enacts Decree to Hospitalize Homeless Drug Addicts
The Rio City Hall published on Monday, August 5th, the decree detailing the care actions for street dwellers drug users...
August 6, 2019Section
Security
News on Security from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Violence Rates in Brazil are Rising, According to Ipea Study
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The massacre of 62 prisoners in Pará this week horrified Brazil. The incident occurred in...
August 5, 2019
Brazil Drug Trafficker Attempts Prison Escape Dressed as Woman
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - One of the visitors leaving Rio's Gabriel Ferreira Castilho Prison Complex was not quite like...
August 5, 2019Customs Officer Gunned Down on Paraguayan Border with Brazil
A man identified as Edgar Insfran was shot in front of his mother's house on a busy street in Pedro...
August 5, 2019São Paulo State Government Supplies New Vehicles to the State Police
The government of São Paulo delivered over 1,674 vehicles to the State Police on Thursday, August 2nd. To reinforce preventive...
August 4, 2019Venezuelan Mothers Harassed Into Selling Their Babies in Brazil’s Roraima State
Young Venezuelan mothers and pregnant women who come to Brazil to escape the crisis in their country and living in...
August 2, 2019Four More Inmates Involved in Prison Riot are Killed Inside Transfer Truck
Four prisoners involved in the Altamira Regional Recovery Center massacre in southwestern Pará were killed by asphyxiation inside the cell...
August 1, 2019Brazil Ranked Fourth in World in Number of Environmentalists Murdered in 2018
Brazil is the fourth most murderous country in the world for environmental activists, according to the annual report of the...
July 31, 2019Street Dweller Attacks and Kills Two People in Rio
The body of teacher Marcelo Henrique Correia Reis will be buried today, July 29th in the Cemetery of Caju, in...
July 30, 2019