Aloysio Nunes's comments come as refugees continue to pour into Roraima, the Brazilian state bordering Venezuela, where tens of thousands have arrived over the past year... READ MORE›
Brazil has received around 40,000 Venezuelans in its northernmost state, Roraima... READ MORE›
Inmates from rival gangs battled at a prison in Goaias state Monday, leaving nine dead and 14 injured, authorities told the Brazilian news site G1. Officia... READ MORE›
About 60 percent more Venezuelans fled the country this year than during the year before, he added... READ MORE›
Sao Paulo, Brazil - A prison riot in the Brazilian Amazon has left at least 56 people dead with some bodies decapitated and burned, officials said... READ MORE›
The reported massacre would be the second deadliest after 16 Yanomami indigenous people were killed in Roraima state in 1993 by illegal gold miners... READ MORE›
Brazil's Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources said the agents died while on a mission to combat deforestation and illegal gold extraction... READ MORE›
Brazilian government services are buckling under the weight of the sudden influx of Venezuelan migrants... READ MORE›
A spiraling economic crisis and hyperinflation have cleaned Venezuelan hospitals of needles, bandages and medicine... READ MORE›
At least 25 inmates have died in clashes between two rival factions in a prison in far northern Brazil, according to local news media citing police... READ MORE›
Police say at least 10 prisoners have been killed at the Alcacuz jail... READ MORE›
More than 50 inmates have been killed in a prison riot in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, officials say... READ MORE›
Between January 2-9, another 10 inmates were killed in smaller prison clashes in Amazonas and the northeastern state of Paraiba... READ MORE›
At least 33 prisoners have been killed in a prison in northern Brazil, just days after 56 died during a jail riot in a neighbouring state... READ MORE›
Inmates stand in their cell in the Pedrinhas Prison Complex, the largest penitentiary in Maranhao state, on Jan. 27, 2015 in Sao Luis, Brazil... READ MORE›
On Saturday afternoon, violence erupted between members of rival gangs at Alcacuz prison, starting a riot which lasted until a dawn raid the following day... READ MORE›
Brazils president is facing impeachment over allegations she broke fiscal laws... READ MORE›
A village of indigenous Yanomami is seen during Brazil's environmental agency operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land in Roraima state on April 18, 2016... READ MORE›
A prison uprising in the neighbouring state of Roraima left at least 33 dead... READ MORE›
56 killed, many beheaded, in grisly Brazil prison riot Five days later, PCC members killed 33 people at a Roraima state prison... READ MORE›
At least 33 inmates dead in northern Roraima state, just days after prison clashes between rival gangs killed 56 people... READ MORE›
This is a national crisis, said Uziel Castro, security secretary of Roraima, where the latest massacre happened... READ MORE›
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters into the yard of the Alcacuz prison in northeastern Brazil as helicopters buzzed overhead... READ MORE›
33 inmates were killed in a northern Brazil prison just days after 60 were killed at two prisons in a neighbouring state... READ MORE›
Authorities said that clash involved the First Command and Red Command, which has its base in Rio de Janeiro... READ MORE›
Prison violence has killed at least 89 inmates in brazil this month... READ MORE›
He said there was a link between the killing of 56 inmates in a penitentiary in Manaus, the state capital, and four deaths in a smaller prison... READ MORE›
In all, 184 inmates escaped from two prisons in Amazonas state as a local drug gang took gruesome revenge on members of a rival gang, authorities said... READ MORE›
The two are clashing over the control of prisons and drug routes in northern Brazil... READ MORE›
What we need is the federal government help, said Castro... READ MORE›
The breakout occurred after a riot was presumably started to distract guards, the state prison management agency Depen said... READ MORE›
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