Every year, thousands of the sightseers who flock to Rio de Janeiro visit favelas. The city’s squatter settlements are the object of the tourists’ curiosity—"poorism,” the practice is called. Favelas ...

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Law Enforcement deployment in Rio favelas results in at least 64 killed Tuesday, October 28th 2025 - 20:44 UTC Full article Governor Castro admitted that the number of casualties and detainees could ...

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Rising gas prices have been acutely felt in Rio's poorer favelas where criminal groups control much of the economy. Armed militias in many of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas are setting exorbitant prices for ...

Hundreds of Rio's military police officers patrolled the streets of Rio's largest favela, Jacarezinho. Residents in Rio de Janeiro’s marginalized favelas are contending with a new government plan ...

In September, as a heat wave pushed temperatures in Brazil to record heights, a few dozen volunteers in yellow and blue hard hats carefully installed a rectangular array of panels onto the roof of a ...

Explore the shanty towns of Río Janeiro and their role in the city's cultural history. The shanty towns of Río Janeiro play a pivotal role in the city's cultural history. They are home to a rich ...

In the opening ceremony of Rio's Olympic Games, Brazil's favelas, or shantytowns, were showcased as the birthplace of a lot of Brazil's culture. That was showbiz. In three of the most iconic ...

For the millions of people living in Rio de Janeiro's notoriously dangerous favelas, the Brazilian government's bold crackdown on drug traffickers and criminals before it hosts two major sporting ...

On a Saturday morning, in a group of Rio de Janeiro's notoriously violent shanty towns, or favelas, heavily armed pacification police stand on one side of the street, on the other side, protestors ...