The military has also been deployed next to Mare, one of the city’s largest favelas, with armoured vehicles and soldiers standing by in several points along the road. The colourful walls block the ...

The 2025 United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP30, opens tomorrow in Belem, Brazil. Ahead of the official meetings, community members from Rio's favelas, its lowest-income neighborhoods, have ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - For residents of Morro da Babilonia, one of Rio de Janeiro's underdeveloped 'favela' neighborhoods, geopolitics rarely enters daily conversation, but as the city readies to ...

Ian Cheibub for NPR It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro’s Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva’s roof. Students from both ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- They do really care about Michael. In 1996, Michael Jackson released two videos for his controversial song, "They Don't Care About Us." Amid protests from the Brazilian government, ...