The world has gained a rare glimpse inside one of Brazil’s most notorious slums where people brandish guns and grenades like fashion accessories and sell drugs in open-air markets for “insane” prices.

She started sniffing glue at age six to ease the hunger of life in a Brazilian slum. She got her first revolver when she was 11. Now 54, Raquel de Oliveira, once the first lady of the drug trade in ...

The residents of Rio de Janeiro's slums are accustomed to seeing the police come in with guns blazing. But in Santa Marta, one of Rio's oldest slums, or favelas, the police are trying an entirely ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Sixteen girls from one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slums have celebrated a fairy-tale evening in a debutante ball sponsored by local police. The 15-year-old girls from Mangueira ...

Brazilian security forces have occupied a Rio de Janeiro favela in a bid to remove drug gangs from the city ahead of the World Cup this summer. In a dawn raid on Sunday, police swarmed the Mare slum, ...

In Brazil, 12 million families -- up to 60 million people -- live in slums, known as "favelas" in Portuguese, and 55 million people do not have access to a sewage system. Until now, the Catholic ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...