RIO DE JANEIRO — More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro’s international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security push ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Rio de Janeiro's police say they've taken over three adjacent slums as part of an ongoing program to increase security and clamp down on drug trafficking. Police captain Ivan Blaz ...

Snipers sat on rooftops and police crawled through alley ways as roughly 3,000 officers and soldiers made their way through Rochina, one of the largest slums in Rio. The move, being called "Shock of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police exchanged fire with gunmen Thursday when they raided one of Rio de Janeiro’s slums to arrest alleged drug traffickers, and 13 people were killed, authorities said. Police ...

A police raid in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Vila Cruzeiro, pictured in November 2010, targeted drug traffickers believed to have fled from another slum nearby ...