Police arrest a suspect during a raid against alleged drug traffickers of the Comando Vermelho criminal organization in the ...

The US is expected to soon designate Brazil’s two largest drug gangs as terrorist organizations, a star prosecutor in the ...

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has designated Brazil's criminal groups Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, as terrorist organizations.

Gangs and militias use similar methods to exploit territory, but traffickers have stronger national ties to the prison system ...

The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history left at least 121 people dead this week in Rio de Janeiro. The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of the country's oldest and ...

One hundred and twenty one people, among them four police officers, were killed in the raid on 28 October in Rio de Janeiro.

Operation in two favelas left 121 dead, including four police officers and two teens, with 99 people taken into custody ...

Brazilian authorities are probing a threat to a power substation linked to the Comando Vermelho gang, following a police raid ...

Brazil is investigating a threat to a power substation in Belem ahead of the COP30 summit. The threat, linked to the Comando ...

None of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis ...

Indigenous communities in Peru's remote Yurúa district, on the border with Brazil, are raising a serious alarm over the increasing presence of members of the Brazilian criminal organization Comando ...

The proposed law, part of the "anti-faction bill", would treat cryptocurrencies like foreign currencies and financial ...