RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Rio de Janeiro raided the Vila Cruzeiro favela before dawn Tuesday. setting off a fierce firefight that authorities said killed more than 20 people. The operation was ...

The doors that aren’t open to us in the rest of the city, we open for ourselves here,’ Maria Cristina de Sales says ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO – Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the dead on Thursday, with residents left reeling by the scenes of carnage and ...

Eighteen people died during a police raid on a favela, a low-income community sometimes called a slum or shanty town, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 21. Authorities said 16 suspected criminals ...

Residents use a cart to transport a body after a police operation that resulted in multiple deaths, in the Complexo do Alemao favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Police said in ...

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‘Nowadays Jairzinho works with kids in the favelas of Rio where the unwritten rule is that visitors have to leave by 5pm. I asked for 10 more minutes and when I turned round, a guy had pulled a gun on ...

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