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Brazil is a drug trafficking hub, and the world’s second largest cocaine market. This is how Brazilian gangs use extreme violence and corruption to build narco-empires.

Brazil's largest prison gang, the PCC, has massacred police, shut down cities and controls 60% of Brazil’s cocaine market. VICE meets the organisation's leader, Marcola.

How a Korean artist designed Chicano Batman’s album artwork

Pabllo Vittar draws her first self portrait.

In this episode of Under the Ink, VICE meets Tucka, a local tattoo artist in Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro's largest favelas.

VICE follow ballet teacher, Tuany Nascimento and her school “On Tiptoes” in the favelas of Rio. In the centre of a feud between rival drug cartels and military police, her students, aged 4-15, regularly hide from gunfire during lessons.

Living With Jaguars is an interactive virtual reality film documenting wild jaguars in Brazil. Part documentary and part immersive game, Living With Jaguars explores historical and current tensions in a rural region where jaguars prey on ranchers' cattle

Chef Natalia Pereira cooks traditional Brazilian dishes infused with cannabis.

DJ duo, the Tupi Collective, have been bringing Brazilian music to Montreal since 2012, but they recently turned an old tricycle into a souped-up mobile sound system to help them perform at outdoor venues.

Host Sarain Fox walked us through some of the photos she took at Standing Rock, North Dakota, the Rio Doce in Brazil and Mauna Kea, Hawaii while filming the new VICELAND series RISE.

Carmelo Anthony won some hardware when he visited Rio for the Olympics, but he still wanted more out of the trip.

In our second episode of Beyond Beauty Grace meets a brave new generation of young black women challenging racial discrimination - redefining Sao Paulo's beauty ideals, through the Afro Hair Movement and reclaiming their cultural identity.