Brazil Buys Tanks For The World Cup, Olympics, And Pope Francis Visit

Flakpanzer Gepard tank. Wikipedia Brazil B uys 34 German Tanks In Security Drive Ahead Of World Cup, Olympics, And Pope Francis Visit -- The...

Nightclub Fire In Brazil Kills Over 200

Fire At Nightclub Kills More Than 200 In Brazil -- Reuters (Reuters) - At least 200 people were killed in a nightclub fire in southern Brazi...

Brazil's Drug Gangs Are Back

Members of the special police unit Bope during a raid on a favela in Rio de Janeiro Drug Gangs Strike Back In Rio’s ‘Pacified’ Slums -- Fina...

Brazil's Methods To Pacify The Favelas Is Being Criticized As Ineffective

The Rocinho slum was allegedly taken without a shot fired earlier this month. But not all operations have been as smooth. Here, police patro...

Why This Weekends Military Occupation Of A Brazilian Slum?

Brazilian Troops' Occupation Of Rio De Janeiro Slum: A Media Circus? -- Christian Science Monitor The peaceful rollout of some 3,000 Bra...

Brazil Rains Have Killed Over 600 People As Epidemic Fears Increase

A resident looks at a destroyed house after a landslide in Teresopolis, Brazil, on Jan. 13. Rescue workers struggled on Thursday to reach ar...

Flood Disaster In Brazil

Brazil Landslides' Death Toll Climbs As Rescue Teams Dig For Survivors -- The Guardian Hundreds dead and about 1,000 missing after mud d...

A New President For Brazil

Former Marxist Guerrilla Sworn In as President Of Brazil -- L.A. Times Dilma Rousseff is Brazil's first female president, taking over fr...

Brazil War Against Drug Gangs To Expand To Other Shanty Towns

Brazil Eyes Next Targets After Major Victory -- FOX News Río’s security forces seized control of the most dangerous slum complex in Brazil b...

Brazil Declares Victory Over Drug gangs In Rio

Brazilian Forces Seize Large Drugs Haul In Rio Favela -- BBC Brazilian police and troops say they have found a large haul of drugs after sto...

Brazil's War Against Drug Gangs In Rio Continues

Temporary Calm Returns To Violence-Plagued Rio De Janeiro -- CNN (CNN) -- Temporary calm returned to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday as anxious r...

Brazil's War Against Drug Gangs In Rio De Janeiro Continues -- News Roundup

Rio de Janeiro Violence Rises -- Wall Street Journal Thousands Of Police Battle Gangs For Control Of Rio Slums -- Sydney Morning Herald Deat...

Brazil Sends The Tanks Into Rio To Combat Street Gangs

Rio de Janeiro Shaken By Fresh Gang Violence -- BBC Police and gang members have clashed in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro for a fourt...

Brazil Declares War Against Rio De Janeiro Street Gangs

Rio De Janeiro Gun Battles Leave At Least 14 People Dead -- The Guardian Many killed in major police assaults on favela strongholds of drug ...

Brazil Elects A Former Marxist Guerilla As President

Dilma Rousseff. © REUTERS/ Bruno Domingos Dilma Rousseff: From Fugitive Guerrilla To Brazil's New President -- CNN (CNN) -- Dilma Rousse...

Brazilians Go To The Polls Today

Former Student Radicals Poised To Lead Brazil -- Miami Herald/McClatchy In the 1960s, economics student Dilma Rousseff joined her first mili...

Can Brazil Become A Failed State

Youths flaunt guns on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. (Pablo Jacob/Extra/O globo) The Gun-Toting Boys From Brazil Who Rule Rio’s ‘Corner Of F...

Brazil To Buy 36 Fighter Jets From France

A Rafale fighter jet performs at the international Paris Air Show this summer. Under the deal, Brazil will acquire French-built Rafale fight...

Brazil's Lula Takes Center Stage In Latin America

Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, second right, with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivia's Evo Morales and Ecuador's Rafael C...