SAO PAULO (AP) – A tenuous six-year truce between police and gang members is over in Sao Paulo _ that much seems clear to shopkeeper Vanuza Alves da Silva, who has seen a surge in killings in her slum ...

Brazilian favelas have grown to occupy an area of 92,300 hectares in the last 40 years, as per data from Mapbiomas’ annual ...

A resident is framed by laundry hanging out to dry in the Paraisopolis favela, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO – After years of economic ...

SAO PAULO, March 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's Sao Paulo state governor Joao Doria said on Monday that state-controlled sanitation company Sabesp will donate water tanks to residents of the Paraisópolis ...

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Slum dwellers rioted after the arrest of drug dealers in a Sao Paulo shantytown Wednesday, burning vehicles and tires, pelting police with rocks and briefly shutting down a major ...

The slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil were ravaged by a fire, forcing residents to flee and sending many to the hospital due to smoke inhalation. Video courtesy of Reuters.