RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday launched a mega-operation to dismantle fraud, money laundering and tax evasion, in the latest phase of an investigation targeting criminal gangs ...

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SAO PAULO, May 29 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday blasted a U.S. decision to designate two Brazilian drug gangs as terrorist organizations, calling it undue ...

A leader in one of Brazil’s most powerful criminal gangs implicated in cocaine trafficking has been murdered along with another gang member, local media reported on Sunday. Rogerio Jeremias de Simone, ...

SÃO PAULO—A Brazilian gang founded in the country’s violent prisons is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest criminal organizations, reshaping global cocaine flows from South America to Europe’s ...

When beheaded, disemboweled corpses stacked up in Brazilian jails, it looked like bloody chaos caused by overcrowding. But experts see method in last week’s madness. They say it was part of a war ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — At least 75 ...

President Donald Trump meeting with Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's jailed ex-president, in the Oval Office, May 26, 2026 [Photo: @FlavioBolsonaro] On Thursday, May 28, the US State ...