A gang born in Brazil's brutal prison system is no longer just a domestic security threat. The Primeiro Comando da Capital, ...

A Brazilian prison gang that once fought for soap and mattresses now has a North American division. In the Wall Street ...

From arms dealing in Boston to pirate attacks in the Amazon, the PCC poses a grave challenge to international efforts to curb organized crime. | World News ...

Brazil's government is relocating gang bosses tied to a weekend prison riot that left 56 inmates dead and is the country's deadliest in nearly 25 years. The inmates believed to be responsible for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents recover around 70 bodies in the woods of the Penha Complex, in the northern part of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, one day ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead drew protests for excessive force Wednesday and ...

Militariy police officers patrol during "Operation Containment" in Rio de Janeiro's Complexo da Penha on October 28. - Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys.

A prominent nonprofit group in Brazil says that criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and are now operating in nearly half of the region’s municipalities By ELÉONORE ...

RIO DE JANEIRO/MAPUTO (Reuters) - One of Brazil's top cocaine traffickers has been arrested in Mozambique, officials in both countries said, underlining the growing global footprint of the First ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Criminal gangs expanded their presence in the Brazilian Amazon last year and are now operating in nearly half of the region’s municipalities, according to a report published ...