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Brazil favela shootout between police and drug gang leaves 25 dead The neighbourhood is considered a base for the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, Rios biggest drug gang 6 May 2021 • 8:13pm The incident began with an exchange of fire at a metro station Credit: MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images At least 25 people, including at least one police officer, were killed in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday in a shootout during a police raid targeting drug traffickers in the citys Jacarezinho neighborhoo...

Police Operation in Rio de Janeiro Leaves at Least 25 Dead Police officials and human rights activists called Thursday’s operation in a district controlled by drug traffickers the deadliest in the city’s history. Police officers during an operation against drug traffickers on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro.Credit...Andre Coelho/EPA, via Shutterstock May 6, 2021 RIO DE JANEIRO — A police operation targeting drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday morning left at least 25 people dead, includ...

Militias, corruption and Covid: Rio de Janeiro’s deepening crisis In a country that has barely grown for a decade, Brazil’s most famous city is mired in heavy debt and violent crime 07 March 2021 - 19:19 By Bryan Harris Alice Pamplona da Silva celebrated her fifth birthday last year the way a child should. Her parents presented her with cake and muffins, each bedecked in luminous icing and cut-out images of the Little Mermaid. Her hair tied in long braids, Alice beams at the fam...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Every week, Ezequiel Dias, an urban farmer, knocks on the doors of his community’s red-brick, makeshift houses with a delivery of fresh sweet potatoes, pumpkins, onions, cabbage and herbs. He checks to see if the families require additional help. Some need facemasks, others need soap. But few are hungry. Many of his neighbours – the majority of whom are informal workers, who make up approximately 60 percent of Rio de Janeiro’s labour force, with little-to-no sav...

While unrest gripped much of Latin America in 2019, it was the coronavirus that took center stage and ripped through the region in 2020, upending everything