As World Cup travelers in Brazil flock to Rio de Janeiro for the tournament's final, many are staying in newly pacified favelas, or low-income neighborhoods. Among the most popular is Vidigal, which ...

Officials in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area are increasingly complaining that the so-called “pacification” of favelas is displacing violence to the city’s periphery. The hard evidence for this ...

Rio de Janeiro’s mayor has announced new funding and a new name for a program meant to complement the city’s police “pacification” with increased social services, but it will take more than a facelift ...

HESSTON, Kan. (KSNW) — It is estimated one in eight soldiers who served in Vietnam were infantrymen. Even fewer were members of the Special Forces. Neil McChesney was one of them. “There’s still way, ...

I was so taken by the derring-do of Smedley Butler, Fighting Fred Funston, Chesty Puller, and the other forgotten Pax Americanistas you describe so well in your Savage Wars of Peace that I almost ran ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A Rio de Janeiro slum erupted in violence late Tuesday following the killing of a popular local figure, with angry residents setting fires and showering homemade explosives and ...

Brazilian troops backed by helicopters and armoured cars occupied Rio's largest slum without violence on Sunday, a big step in the city's bid to improve security and end the reign of drug gangs in the ...

What makes Pacification a brilliant movie is also what makes it a real endurance test to watch. Albert Serra’s latest film wraps up political intrigue and conspiracy in a mundane bow that is probably ...