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Courting goodwill in Rio's mean streets
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | about 1 month ago
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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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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 | about 1 month 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
Chopper down, 16 dead, Rio mayor aims for peaceful Olympics
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility In the most dramatic incident two policemen died when their helicopter was shot down as it hovered near rival drug gangs who were having a shoot-out in the Morro dos Macacos slum in the north of the city. The incident triggered an assault on slums by...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Morro dos Macacos, deaths toll, drug gangs, UK Sport, bloody clashes
Gangs Down Police Chopper as Rio de Janeiro Burns
Brazilian officials are insisting security won't be a problem for its just-won 2016 Olympics despite drug-gang violence that plunged Rio de Janeiro into a day of bloody chaos that saw gangs shoot down a police helicopter, killing two cops and injuring...
Tags: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Gang Fight, Security Issues, Olympics 2016
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