Explore published stories from Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and nearby.
On April 7, 2011, twelve pupils were killed at Tasso da Silveira Municipal School in Rio. This dossier follows a pupil’s plea for help, police intervention, the investigation into the weapons, the limits of claims about motive, and survivors’ and families’ work to rebuild the school and remember those killed.
34 km · Niterói
In August 1966, two electronics technicians from Campos dos Goytacazes were found dead in Niterói near lead plates and notes giving precise times. Surviving copies of the inquiry separate the recorded scene from the legend, while leaving the cause of death unresolved.
114 km · Nova Friburgo
From 1991 to 1995, attacks in rural Nova Friburgo were attributed to brothers Ibraim and Pedro Henrique de Oliveira. This dossier traces victims, the pursuit, a survivor, and the 2000 trial. Contemporary reports disagree on dates and the death toll; the known conviction covers specific offenses, not the entire series.
253 km · Varginha
Three young women reported a disturbing encounter in 1996. Rumours of captures, hospitals, and soldiers followed, along with a 357-page military inquiry and a cultural identity built around the case. What does each record actually establish?
256 km · São José dos Campos
On 19 and 20 May 1986, lights reported by pilots and controllers led Brazil’s Air Force to launch five fighters. The original report confirms the operation and describes differing contacts; its striking conclusion sits alongside technical limits often omitted from retellings.