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A gang born in Brazil's brutal prison system is no longer just a domestic security threat. The Primeiro Comando da Capital, ...
Brazil's government is relocating gang bosses tied to a weekend prison riot that left 56 inmates dead and is the country's deadliest in nearly 25 years. The inmates believed to be responsible for a ...
A Brazilian prison gang that once fought for soap and mattresses now has a North American division. In the Wall Street ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Militariy police officers patrol during "Operation Containment" in Rio de Janeiro's Complexo da Penha on October 28. - Mauro ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents recover around 70 bodies in the woods of the Penha Complex, in the northern part of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, one day ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead drew protests for excessive force Wednesday and ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and are now operating in nearly half of the region’s municipalities, according to a report published ...
Militariy police officers patrol during "Operation Containment" in Rio de Janeiro's Complexo da Penha on October 28. - Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys.