“He guaranteed to me that we will reach an agreement,” Lula told a news conference, speaking through an interpreter.

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 calls for the Rio's gover...

Rio de Janeiro’s state public defender’s office has said that 132 people were killed in Tuesday’s bloody police raids on the city’s drug traffickers, more than double the current official toll.

Local activist Raull Santiago said he was part of a team that found about 15 bodies before dawn.