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Rio de Janeiro will drastically increase surveillance and lean on federal and state police forces ahead of next year’s Group of 20 nations summit, as it seeks to use the major global gathering to help ...

According to prosecutor Letícia Petriz, financially suffocating criminal organizations strikes at their core, weakening their ability to operate and expand.

At least 132 people have died in a massive police raid aimed at organized crime in Rio de Janeiro, the regional public defender’s office said on Wednesday. Among the dead are four Brazilian police ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian authorities launched a mega-operation in Rio de Janeiro that sent a force of nearly 2,000 military and civil officers into 10 low income neighborhoods Monday seeking to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s state government has launched a mega-operation with a force that includes nearly 2,000 military and civil officers across 10 low income neighborhoods to regain ...