Brazil has an uneasy co-existence with homicide. At least 1,060,000 Brazilians have been murdered since 2000.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tweeted a sexually explicit video of a man touching himself late Tuesday night at a street party during Carnival, a nationwide festival known as the country’s biggest party.
in a country plagued by rising levels of violent crime, the sentiment is widely popular with voters — and reflected in government policy
Faced with an epidemic of homicidal violence and relentless corruption, newly elected governments in Latin America have unveiled ambitious crime reduction plans
Of the many outsiders who have emerged in Latin American politics of late, young Nayib Bukele stands out
Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is making good on a campaign promise to loosen the country’s gun laws.
Fearing for his safety amid rising crime in Latin America’s largest nation, Paulo Alberto joined a gun club three years ago and learned to shoot.
Fearing for his safety amid rising crime in Latin America’s largest nation, Paulo Alberto joined a gun club three years ago and learned to shoot.
The idea that a ‘good guy with a gun’ will improve personal security in Brazil is pure fiction
President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree making it easier for many Brazilians to own firearms
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil signed a decree on Tuesday
Brazilians are desperate for better public security, and not without good reason
Is the world becoming less violent? The answer is yes and no.
But that will not be enough to curb emigration
The 16-year-old had spent a balmy Saturday afternoon in May with his high school friends at a funk music party in Brasília’s central park, not far from the country’s presidential palace.
For Natalia and Rubens Ortega, the only remaining question is: Glock or Taurus?
For desperate Latin American leaders, the ex-mayor’s super-cop reputation matters more than feeble results.
When Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was bussed to trial in New York on Tuesday morning, Brooklyn Bridge was closed.
Legal gun sales – and black market forces – keep arms flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border
While there is no need for American troops on our border now, that day is coming.
The new leader of Latin America’s biggest democracy and economy doesn’t care about your feelings
Ex-army captain has promised to appoint military men who served alongside him under dictatorship
Brazilians are voting Sunday in a presidential election that’s captured global attention largely because of one man: Jair Bolsonaro.
According to the Pew Research Center, the crime rate has fallen in the United States over the past 25 years.
Brazil is a majority nonwhite country, a multicultural mix of ethnicities.
More than 2.3 million Venezuelans – roughly 7 percent of the entire population – have fled the country’s political and economic crisis since 2014, the largest human displacement in Latin America’s history.
Cristian Sabino was sitting on a plastic chair by this beach resort’s central market when a gunman walked up and shot him five times. As the 22-year-old dropped to the ground, the assailant fired a final bullet to the head and walked away.
Homicide rates in Mexico and Brazil are climbing even further. Yet Britain could learn from listening to debates in Latin America
Data show a 3% increase of people killed in 2017 from the previous year; rapes also rose 8% to 60,018
Even from his jail cell, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, founder of the Workers’ party, which has led Brazil for 13 of the past 15 years, still holds some of the most important keys to Brazil’s elections in October.
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