Watch: Brazilian robbers pick on the wrong Mormon missionary

A newly released dramatic video captures two would-be robbers in the streets of Brazil being undone by a Mormon missionary from the United States, who disarms one man and pummels another with punches. In the end, the apparent attackers flee on foot, leaving behind their motorcycle. “The missionary feared for his life and reacted,” Eric Hawkins, […]

Over 100 dead in Brazil as police strike spurs anarchy

More than 100 people have been reported killed during a six-day strike by police in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, as hundreds of troops patrolled streets attempting to keep order with schools and businesses closed and public transport frozen. The Army mobilized airborne troops and armored vehicles on Thursday to reinforce roughly 1,200 soldiers […]

Grisly gang fight kills dozens in Brazil prison

SÃO PAULO—More than 30 inmates were killed, many of them mutilated, in Brazil’s second prison riot this week as drug gangs based in overcrowded prisons fight over cocaine-smuggling routes. The state government of Roraima in northern Brazil said 33 inmates were killed early Friday morning in a prison in the state capital of Boa Vista. […]

At least 60 die in Brazil prison riot

A 17-hour uprising at a prison in Brazil claimed the lives of at least 60 people over the weekend, state-run media reported Monday. The revolt started Sunday afternoon as part of a rivalry between two criminal organizations at the Anísio Jobim Prison Complex in the city of Manaus, Agencia Brasil reported, citing Sergio Fontes, the […]

Brazil’s Federal Police asks prosecutors to charge Lula for more crimes: media

Brazil’s Federal Police asked prosecutors to charge former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for more crimes in the country’s widest-ever corruption probe, Globo’s G1 news site reported on Monday. Lula, president from 2003 to 2010 and a possible candidate in the 2018 election, is already a defendant in three criminal probes linked to the […]

Watch: Brazilian Soccer Team Plane Crash Update – Pilot Radioed “No Fuel”

Update: A recording of the pilot on the Brazilian soccer team flight that crashed near Medellin, Colombia killing 71 on board has been obtained by Colombian media. Reports state the pilot radioed ‘no fuel’ and that they were experiencing an electrical problem with the aircraft. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident but it appears […]

Plane carrying Brazilian soccer team crashes on the way to Colombia

According to Colombian authorities, the aircraft with the call sign CP2933 was coming from Bolivia with approximately 80 people on board and crashed while heading to José María Córdova International Airport. The airport is located in the city of Rionegro which is near the city of Medellín, Colombia. Reports state there are survivors. CNN reported six people […]

Isolated Amazon tribe spotted by recon flight looking for illegal mining operations

An airplane dispatched by the Brazilian government as a part of its continued efforts to stop illegal logging and mining in the Amazon rain forest recently snapped the first ever aerial photographs of an as-yet uncontacted tribe of indigenous Yanomami people, living in total solitude deep within the jungle. The photographs depict what is called […]

At Least 18 Dead in Brazilian Prison Riots

At least 18 inmates died in clashes in two separate penitentiaries in Brazil’s Amazon region and more than three dozen escaped after a third prison riot caused a large fire in a complex outside Sao Paulo, officials said Monday. Authorities were investigating a possible connection between the first two uprisings in the jungle states of […]

Mexico suffers more deaths than war-torn Iraq, Afghanistan

Data from the 2016 Global Peace Index Report indicates that Mexico’s internal conflict led to approximately 33,000 deaths in 2015, a figure higher than those of war-torn countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The Institute for Economics and Peace presented its Global Peace Index 2016 report this week, in which Mexico is ranked 140 out of 163 […]