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Brazil crime wars: Spiderman's story of drugs and Jesus in Rio's slums
Santos :: Brazil | 3 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,...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Spiderman
Brazilian Arrives at his Funeral a bit Confused
As uncommon as it is to watch your own funeral, it happened on Monday in Rio de Janeiro. Ademir Jorge Gocalves, 59, shocked his morning family by showing up very much alive at his funeral. Brazilian custom is to bury the deceased the very next day....
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Funeral, Dia de Finados
Courting goodwill in Rio's mean streets
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 12 days ago
Credibility The residents of Santa Marta, one of this violent city's many hillside slums, had never seen someone quite like the new police captain, a woman who strolled its maze of passageways to shake hands and ask residents what services the government might deliver....
Tags: Rio de Janeiro
BRAZIL- Rio offered $58.3m to fight gang violence
Lausanne :: Switzerland | 13 days ago
Credibility President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met with Rio de Janeiro state governor Sergio Cabral and made the offer on October 19, Reuters said. The clashes, between October 17 and 18, in two slums resulted in the deaths of three police officers, 12 drug traffickers...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, IOC
Rio''s Olympic dreams challenged
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 14 days ago
Credibility Rio de Janeiro's image of fun and sun that helped it win the 2016 Olympics has been marred by a resurgence in drug-related violence that raises questions over the city's preparedness. Pictures of a downed police helicopter in flames in one of Rio's numerous...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro
Rio police transfer 'drug barons'
Lapa :: Brazil | 14 days ago
Credibility The move comes as Rio police hunt for members of drug gangs who shot down a police helicopter last Saturday, killing three officers. A week of gang violence in the city's shanty towns has left 40 people dead. The authorities reportedly believe orders...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro
Death toll rises in Rio violence
São Paulo :: Brazil | 17 days ago
Credibility Reporting from Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro police on Wednesday announced seven more deaths and 17 arrests as drug-fueled violence continued to sweep over parts of the city that this month was named to host the 2016 Olympics.
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian
More die amid Rio slum violence
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 18 days ago
Credibility The fighting erupted at the weekend when a police helicopter was shot down by suspected drug traffickers. Gun battles have since erupted between drug gangs and hundreds of heavily armed police deployed to find those behind the attack. The violence comes...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, rio slum, drug gangs
Approach-light problem in taxiway landing?
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility Federal investigators trying to determine why a Delta Air Lines jet landed on a taxiway instead of the runway in Atlanta on Monday morning say the runway was illuminated, but that approach lights and a ground-based instrument that helps pilots line up...
Tags: Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Delta Air Lines, Rio de Janeiro, FAA
Rio police expand anti-gang raids, 32 now dead
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | 19 days ago
Credibility Police say at least 29 people have died in the northern area of the city since this weekend, just two weeks after Rio won the 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Eduardo Naddar) Associated Press Writer / October 21, 2009
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, morro dos, olympic games
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