RIO DE JANEIRO -- Showered in confetti and flanked by sequined samba queens, Rio's mayor symbolically relinquished control of the city to its rotund C...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The globe's biggest Carnival bash opens Friday, and it promises to be an even bigger blowout this year, with 20 percent more tourist...

Although patchwork agreements with police unions have bought a temporary and and uneasy peace in Bahia and Rio, law and order is now the key issue Brazil's 2014 presidential race.

Brazil brings to mind a number of things: Beautiful women like Giselle Bunchen, Adriana Lima or Alessandra Ambrosio; and Carnival, the biggest party i...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Most pre-Carnival street parties in Brazil are all about samba, but the moves on display at Sunday's Blocao parade were focused more...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A strike by Rio police a week ahead of Carnival celebrations is drawing attention to a deeply troubled force in which low wages...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Enormous buildings suddenly collapse in this Olympic city's center, killing 17. A manhole explodes near Copacabana Beach, severely b...

SAO PAULO — Firefighters pulled more bodies from the rubble of three collapsed buildings in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, raising the dea...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Rescue workers feverishly dug through the wreckage of three downtown buildings Friday, hunting for survivors of a collapse that...

Footage recorded by a security camera has captured the devastating collapse of three buildings that has left at least 6 people dead in Rio de Janeiro,...

Rio De Janeiro Building Collapses (VIDEO)

JAMAPARA, Brazil — A mudslide caused by two days of downpours has killed at least 13 people in a small town in southeastern Brazil, and another ...

By Taylor Barnes and Jimmy Chalk, GlobalPost A shirtless 10-year-old boy walks among the dozens of crack users gathered along the trashed roc...

Last weekend, the Peacekeeping Units (UPP) of the city of Rio de Janeiro faced perhaps their most difficult task in the pacification process, the occupation of the Rocinha community.

RIO DE JANEIRO — One of the Rio shantytowns taken over by police this week has a population that is younger, less educated and more cut off from...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- More than 3,000 police and soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers raced into Brazil's biggest slum before dawn Sunday, quickl...

I'm on my annual global adventure and thus far have posted on: - "Japan: Seven Months After the Cataclysm," and - "A Simple Solution for E...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The most-wanted drug gang leader in this Olympic city was arrested Thursday, police said. The capture is a blow to the gang that con...