ASSOCIATED PRESS Residents of the Paraisopolis slum take part in a demonstration asking for peace, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019.

Silva grew up in a slum — or favela — in the Sao Paulo suburb of Taboao da Serra. The dangers of Brazilian favelas have been well-documented in film and literature.

SAO PAULO – SAO PAULO (AP) — A fire has raged through a Brazilian slum, destroying more than 300 homes. Residents of the Real Parque neighborhood in Sao Paulo were frantically using buckets of ...

Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo’s largest slum, Paraisopolis and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the center of the favela of around 120,000 people ...

In São Paulo, the homes of both rich and poor mingle Developers sell ritzy condos right next to slums by promising calm, downplaying crime By TERRY WADE, Reuters News Service Dec 19, 2004 ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Police contribute to violence in Brazil’s slums, barely keeping a presence except for raids that endanger innocent lives, Amnesty International said in a report released ...

Sao Paulo is losing population and conditions in slums formed three decades ago have improved with the building of police stations, churches, courts, and schools and improving incomes for residents.

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 source of community pride.

A former alpine climber, Antarctic worker, Erebus recovery team member and drug smuggling scam victim is missing near ...

Brazilian teacher and urban planner Raquel Rolnik writes [pt] about a wave of suspicious fires in slums of the city of São Paulo. Allegedly, a few days after the last fire, a construction company had ...

This month, Sao Paulo will finish updating a municipal housing census which will likely show favelas have grown in number and size since the last census in 1987, when there were 2,000 slums.