particularly in the favelas (slums), FARC-style. Finally, the PCC is said to be expanding into politics. Gakiya said the Attorney General's Office in the state of São Paulo has investigated ...

Two main thoroughfares were closed after angry demonstrators from a favela (slum) set ablaze barricades ... In related news Sao Paulo city reported that early Tuesday, 34 buses parked in an ...

Pele's meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.

The son of a journeyman soccer player for Brazil’s smallest teams, Neymar was born in the industrial city of Mogi das Cruzes, some 60 kilometres north of Sao Paulo, the country’s biggest ...