Argentine tourism authorities say that an Argentine tourist who was shot in the head and chest in Rio de Janeiro last month ...

Digital gambling could spell the end for a lottery run by criminal gangs that has been a fixture of Brazilian life for ...

These Latin American countries gave these excuses for sending official envoys to the sham inauguration of Venezuela’s dictator.

Brazil’s highly militarized policing disproportionately impacts poor and racialized communities. By providing funding and training, the United States has helped exacerbate the crisis.

Readers were also shocked by the story in March of a Brazilian-Spanish influencer who was gang-raped in India while camping during a motorbike trip. Federico Porci No, 30, grew up in Tirano ...

Drug smugglers are increasingly targeting bulkers at northern Brazil ports to carry illicit cargoes, using hiding places on ...

In a video posted on social media by the Brazilian outlet Metrópoles ... Jeremy Meeks, a former member of the Crips gang, was dubbed "hot convict" and "mug shot hottie" after he was arrested ...

Evangelical Christianity will, by some predictions, overtake Catholicism as Brazil's biggest religion by the end of the decade. As it has grown, the charismatic Pentecostal movement has particularly ...

Vital says Afro-Brazilian Umbanda and Candomblé religious houses have been shut down in surrounding neighbourhoods too, with gangsters sometimes drawing messages on the walls such as "Jesus is ...