One BOPE officer was reportedly grazed by a bullet in the leg during a raid in the forest area of Complexo do Alemão. Governor Castro stressed that the figures released were preliminary as the ...

Hearing these frantic commands to “Go back! Turn around and go back!” come from exasperated faces up and down the mess of a road stopped me in my tracks. I was walking home from school on a road not ...

They come bearing satellite TV. Brazil’s Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, or BOPE, is an elite force of military police who often specialize in urban operations in Rio’s slums—or favelas. As ...

Does every Brazilian love a fascist? That’s the question raised by the new film Tropa de Elite, which is on its way to becoming one of the country’s most popular movies of all time. The protagonist in ...