particularly in the favelas (slums), FARC-style. Finally, the PCC is said to be expanding into politics. Gakiya said the Attorney General's Office in the state of São Paulo has investigated ...

At least three people were killed and 12 others arrested Wednesday in a police operation targeting a criminal ring in a slum in northern Rio de Janei ...

Competition for fields in the slums, or "favelas," can be fierce in ... kids participate in a soccer class. Two teams in Sao Paulo compete in a "pelada," or "naked," match, a Sunday tradition ...

(Mainichi/Kazuhisa Soneda) SAO PAULO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese man was killed ... The suspect fled from the scene but police later located him in a slum area nearby, according to an investigative ...

Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.

The son of a journeyman soccer player for Brazil’s smallest teams, Neymar was born in the industrial city of Mogi das Cruzes, some 60 kilometres north of Sao Paulo, the country’s biggest ...