Members of the Battallion of the Special Police Operations (BOPE) during a training ceremony.Cedric Gerbehaye—Vu It took six months. Emails requesting access were either ignored or put off by police ...

A police helicopter flies low during "Operacion choque de paz" in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro. EPA RIO DE JANEIRO — More than 3,000 police and soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers ...

Members of the elite BOPE police unit patrol the favela of Parque Alegria in Rio De Janeiro. With only three months to go before Brazil hosts the World Cup this summer, the police have called on the ...

The US government approved a sale of sniper rifles to a deadly police unit in Brazil last year, overriding concerns from the US ambassador and other diplomats that the arms could be used in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — More than 3,000 police and soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers raced into Brazil’s biggest slum before dawn Sunday, quickly gaining control of a shantytown ruled for ...

Brazil's ever-expanding corruption problem broke new ground Friday with charges that members of the country's most storied and supposedly untouchable police unit were taking bribes from drug ...

In a series of taps of phone calls and text messages obtained during an operation carried out in Rio de Janeiro by the Civil Police, sergeant Arlen Santos Silva negotiates with drug traffickers from ...

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