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

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

The original bill, introduced by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and intended to tackle the funding of criminal groups, was transformed by far-right lawmakers.

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

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 company managing the substation received demands for work suspension and daily operational interruptions, raising ...

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

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 ...

Operation Containment" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, aimed to disrupt the criminal network Comando Vermelho, but with 132 dead ...

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

From the bustling streets of Belém to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, organized crime is spreading fast across northern Brazil, driven by the notorious Red Command (Comando Vermelho, or CV).

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - 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 ...