Brazilian favelas have grown to occupy an area of 92,300 hectares in the last 40 years, as per data from Mapbiomas’ annual mapping of urbanized areas, released Wednesday (Mar. 4). According to the ...

HELIOPOLIS, Brazil (Reuters) - Hundreds of houses painted in a kaleidoscope of vibrant colours line the main streets of Sao Paulo's largest slum -- turning what was once a grim, grey landscape into a ...

SAO PAULO, March 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's Sao Paulo state governor Joao Doria said on Monday that state-controlled sanitation company Sabesp will donate water tanks to residents of the Paraisópolis ...

A resident is framed by laundry hanging out to dry in the Paraisopolis favela, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO – After years of economic ...

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Slum dwellers rioted after the arrest of drug dealers in a Sao Paulo shantytown Wednesday, burning vehicles and tires, pelting police with rocks and briefly shutting down a major ...

SAO PAULO (AP) – A tenuous six-year truce between police and gang members is over in Sao Paulo _ that much seems clear to shopkeeper Vanuza Alves da Silva, who has seen a surge in killings in her slum ...

In Brazil, 12 million families -- up to 60 million people -- live in slums, known as "favelas" in Portuguese, and 55 million people do not have access to a sewage system. Until now, the Catholic ...

The slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil were ravaged by a fire, forcing residents to flee and sending many to the hospital due to smoke inhalation. Video courtesy of Reuters.

Baiano is frying potatoes next to an open sewer in a district of São Paulo known as Campo Limpo (beautiful field). His van is plastered with election posters. Three girls brave the miasma of cooking ...