A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals, it was reported. Two servicemen were wounded.
Over the last decade, at least 45 environmentalists, most of them indigenous to the Amazon regions, have been murdered with impunity, with their cases largely overlooked by the nation.
Two dangerous inmates from the Comando Vermelho criminal organization have escaped in the first jailbreak in the history of the federal prison system, which was created in 2006
Diego Dirísio and his wife Julieta Nardi, a former model, were arrested in Argentina on Friday. They allegedly used their business in Paraguay to buy weapons in Europe ad supply gangs in Brazil.