In addition to being a beach-filled city and the host of the upcoming summer Olympics, Rio ... "slums"). Some favelas are so large that you could consider them cities inside the city. Rocinha, the ...

The Brazilian government will spend 1.7 billion dollars to bring running water and other basic services to Rio de Janeiro slums to counter drug gangs that control many of the poor areas ...

Rio de Janeiro's famous favelas, the hillside slums that have been home to its ... the city and state authorities have pacified' the biggest and most violent favelas first (Complexo de Alemo ...

As the Rio Olympics approach ... of the video and a blog with Dana’s first-person account of covering slums, got great play worldwide. For example, just a 59-second version of the video, posted on the ...