Former Brazilian Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto was arrested on Saturday for allegedly meddling in the investigation of ...

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, ...

By Ana Ionova Reporting from Rio de Janeiro Brazilian police on Saturday arrested Gen ... Bolsonaro’s inner circle, for the ...

Few countries are as aggressive as Brazil in prosecuting racist speech. The number of cases was up fivefold between 2020 and ...

Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally ...

The murder rate in Brazil's Amazon is far higher than the national average, largely because of territorial conflict in a ...

Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil's Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent nonprofit organisation ...

Brazilian and Italian authorities said they launched two joint operations on Tuesday aimed at dismantling a transnational plot to transport cocaine from South America to Europe using cargo ships or ...

Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) on Monday executed arrest warrants and searches in several states, confiscating almost R$1 billion ($165 mln) in assets linked to the illegal sale of carbon credits from ...

Brazilian electricity sector: similarities with organized crime The Brazilian electricity sector delivrers almost a hundred billion USD per year considering generation, transmission and distribution.