 News and reports from North, Central and South America.
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Written by Tom Phillips and Thais Viallela
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Tuesday, 09 November 2004 |
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The kidnapping of a national football star's mother shows the dark underbelly of Brazil's beautiful game and its ransom-fuelled snatch squads.
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Written by Tom Phillips and Thais Viallela
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Tuesday, 12 October 2004 |
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The assassination of a renowned Rio drugs lord throws Brazil's tourism capital into further violence with some areas on a war footing.
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Written by Richard Powell
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Monday, 19 July 2004 |
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Steven Macpherson Watt, the lawyer battling the Bush administration over the detainment of ‘enemy combatants’ at Guantanamo Bay, speaks about his uphill fight for justice.
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Written by William Starr Moake
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Thursday, 01 July 2004 |
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Paradise isn't what it used to be. There's a dark side to America's 50th state that tourists seldom see, but the growing pains are all too obvious to its inhabitants.
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Written by Tom Phillips
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Sunday, 20 June 2004 |
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Prisoners are beheaded and burned as violence from warring drug factions spreads across Rio de Janeiro's prisons.
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Written by Tom Phillips
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Wednesday, 28 April 2004 |
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A special report from the centre of Rio's ongoing drugs feud as police forces battle to stop all-out war.
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Written by Tom Phillips
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Friday, 16 April 2004 |
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Parents at an upmarket school in Rio's embattled Rochinha district want its owners to relocate so their children are not killed in the raging drugs war that surrounds it.
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Written by Tom Phillips
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Monday, 12 April 2004 |
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An attempted invasion of Rio de Janeiro's largest favela by rival drug traffickers on Good Friday left at least three civilians dead and wounded scores of others.
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