The United Arab Emirates wants to invest more in Brazil ... the government of the state of Rio de Janeiro were about creating new housing possibilities in the favelas and connecting them better ...

Brazilian authorities say a civil police officer co-piloting a helicopter has been shot in the head while authorities conducted an operation in Rio de Janeiro.

commonly known as a favela, according to local news outlet G1. In a statement, Rio de Janeiro police criticized an ongoing case in Brazil’s Supreme Court, in which justices have issued rulings ...

Carnival always breathes life into the economy of Vila Vintem, on Rio de Janeiro’s west side, but this year there’s even more, with its Unidos de Padre Miguel samba school back in the top parade leagu ...

The city is home to some of Brazil's most important artists ... avant garde of artists that came from the favelas, which are the local communities. Rio is the hometown of the most important ...

The schools are mostly based in working-class communities known as favelas that often go overlooked ... toward next year’s parade. In Rio, time marches on, with a smile. Not to be completely outshined ...

Rio de Janeiro and Salvador were the two biggest ports that received enslaved people in the trade. Brazil benefited greatly from ... housing (cortiços), which became the precursors to favelas. Despite ...

Favelas in Rio are typically associated with dense ... the founder of the first space in Brazil for rituals of the Afro-Brazilian faith Candomble. Experts say the best path for scrappy samba ...

Modern Brazil is what it is today - the foods ... KAHN: The lyrics sing of the proud history of Rio's iconic hillside favelas, or shantytowns, filled with homes built by Bantus, the Africans ...

Favelas in Rio are typically associated with dense ... Their procession told the story of Iyá Nassô, the founder of the first space in Brazil for rituals of the Afro-Brazilian faith Candomble.