brazil

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.

This is how Brazil’s deadly drug wars have been fuelled by a president who thinks the solution is to throw more guns at the problem.

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 a ballet school in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where young girls have to avoid regular shootouts between narco gangs and police during lessons.

This is what it's like to win the World Cup final, according to Zinedine Zidane - one of the greatest football players of all time.

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.

Our favorite tattoo-covered alien princess discovers more about the pressures to have the 'perfect body' and long hair.

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.