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Brazil crime wars: Spiderman's story of drugs and Jesus in Rio's slums

Source: The Guardian
Santos : Brazil | 16 days ago  
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If you add them all up I control 15 communities," boasted Spiderman as his shiny 4x4 hurtled through the narrow backstreets of western Rio de Janeiro. Behind the wheel was Juarez Mendes da Silva, 28, one of the Brazilian capital's most wanted drug lords, better known by the nickname Spiderman.
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