A tough stance against organized crime? One year after a massacre that left more than 130 people dead, a new law aims to crack down on drug cartels in Rio's favelas.

The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people ...

A Rio de Janeiro influencer, known as Penélope or Japinha do CV, was killed during Brazil's deadliest police raid in Complexo ...

Human Rights Watch says 4,400 hours of Rio police body-camera video show none of the 122 deaths in Brazil's deadliest raid, a year on.

Bodies piled up in poor neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday as police launched their biggest ever raids on the city's drug traffickers, leaving at least 64 dead in war-like scenes. Police ...