Soccer in South America is a staple, and a tournament by a soccer program based in Los Angeles is what's new in one community ...

It was held in one of Rio's most impoverished communities, commonly known as a "favela ... Both Matos and Arnold are from Brazil, and currently reside in LA. They said they grew up in a community ...

International travel is rewarding, and if South America is on your bucket list, you might want to stick to the safe ...

The country has turned into a vast inferno, with at least 11.3 million hectares devastated this year, almost 10 times the ...

According to a report released this month from the watchdog group Global Witness, Latin America is the deadliest region for ...

The Paris Olympic Games were considered a great success. But economist Andrew Zimbalist questions why cities seem so keen to ...

There were some who found the violent coming-of-age drama to be exploitative, fetishizing poverty and crime in the Brazilian favelas without digging deeper than misery. Wilson’s estranged ...

For a film its creator thought was, “this little low-budget film from Brazil,” the 2002 “City ... “COG” was set in a Rio favela, inspired by real events and now ranks among world cinema ...

A Brazilian artist performs on a stage, an effigy of former President Evo Morales burns on a road, Mexican National Guard ...

City of God: The Fight Rages On, a Brazilian television series ... captures the turbulent life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas two decades later. Directed by Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles ...