SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, June 25 (Reuters) - Right-wing candidates in Brazil have vowed to import El Salvador's "Bukele model," building prisons and cracking down on crime like that country's iron-fisted ...

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s Senate approved on Tuesday legislation that strengthens the government's power to fight criminal gangs, ...

A new anti-crime bill in Brazil targets the son of a jailed Red Command gang leader who is using his music to advocate for his father’s freedom. But the measure is unlikely to have much impact on ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has followed through with some of his campaign promises to crack down on crime. His administration has issued a decree allowing for greater gun ownership as a means ...

A tough stance against organized crime? One year after a massacre that left more than 130 people dead, a new law aims to ...

Brazil’s “criminal economy” does not appear on any national balance sheet. Yet the cost of violence, contraband, tax evasion and environmental crime can be measured in the tens of billions of dollars ...

Cooperation had already been intensifying. In May, during the 13th Bolivia-Brazil Joint Commission on Drugs and Related ...

SAO PAULO — Gunmen in a car opened fire last November at Sao Paulo's airport and killed a cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a daytime hit that was one of Brazil's most shocking recent crimes. Police at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial photograph of cargo containers in the port of Santos in Sao Paulo, Brazil and the United States have reached an ...

For the first time in NFL history, the league is bringing its product to Brazil. Sao Paulo is the site for the first-ever NFL contest in the country, as the Eagles and the Packers are going ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Robert Muggah is affiliated with Igarapé Institute and ...