Firearm Registrations in Brazil Rise Five-Fold in Ten Years
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The number of firearm registrations by individuals citizens in...
July 24, 2018Topic
homicide
French Artist Murdered Outside Paraty in Rio de Janeiro State
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The normally quiet neighborhood of Barra Grande, just outside of...
July 18, 2018
Rio Police Arrest Brazilian Suspected of Killing Girlfriend in Australia
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Over the weekend, Rio police apprehended Mário Marcelo Ferreira dos...
July 9, 2018
Violence in Rio’s Rocinha Reaches New Heights
With 54 homicide victims in the last six months, thirteen in March alone, Rocinha is going through its bloodiest period...
April 3, 2018
Rio Sees Disturbing Rise in Murders and Robberies
In 2016 so far, there have been one thousand additional murders and a shocking thirty thousand more robberies compared to...
December 1, 2016
New Report Shows Alarming Rise in Murder and Robbery in Rio
The just released Institute of Public Security (ISP) report shows alarming increases in Rio de Janeiro State’s homicides, 17.6 percent,...
November 2, 2016
Seven Samarco Executives Charged With Homicide in Brazil
Seven have been charged with homicide in connection to the collapse of the Samarco dam in Mariana in November 2015...
February 24, 2016
Dia da Consciência Negra: Black Awareness Day in Brazil
Despite advances in the past few years, Afro-Brazilians still receive lower wages, are under-represented and are make up the largest...
November 20, 2014
American Strangled to Death in Rio: Daily
Victoria Tcaciuc, a contractor for the U.S. Department of State has been strangled to death in a Centro, Rio hotel...
March 1, 2013