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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.

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

Dieses Mal ist Grace ih São Paulo, um mehr über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den Schönheitsidealen und dem alltäglichen Rassismus in dem Land zu erfahren.

In der ersten Folge lernt die mit Tattoos übersäte Alienprinzessin mehr über den gesellschaftlichen Druck, als Frau den „perfekten Körper“ und lange Haare zu haben.

We head to the Black Rock, Nevada campsite home of the legendary Burning Man festival and check out the incredible art structures built throughout the grounds.

Shane Smith travels to Kabul to follow the trail of American money pouring into the Afghan reconstruction. Then, VICE travels to Rio de Janeiro, where the Brazilian government took extreme measures to clean up the city for the World Cup and Olympics.

We visited a clinic that carries on a family tradition of giving low income Brazilians access to plastic surgery.