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Brazil will seek U.S. cooperation in fighting organized crime in its fuel sector, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on ...

Brazil will seek US help to combat organized crime as part of ongoing trade negotiations, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad ...

A prominent nonprofit group in Brazil says that criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho directs a rich, exciting epic about a persecuted scientist in 1977 Brazil, when the country was under a military dictatorship.

Oct. 30 (UPI) --President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools to combat organized crime in Brazil amid growing concern over violence ...

Police arrest a suspect during a raid against alleged drug traffickers of the Comando Vermelho criminal organization in the ...

Flamengo’s soccer captain, Bruno de Souza, has turned himself in to police. De Souza was on the run after police named him as a possible suspect in the murder of his ex-girlfriend Elizia Samudio, 25.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – One of the most eagerly anticipated series of recent years in Brazil, Prime Video’s “Tremembé” had a buzzy world premiere at a packed screening at the Rio Film Festival on a ...