Tag Archives: Rio de Janeiro crime

Eleição presidencial: continuidade para o Rio de Janeiro, com muitos desafios

Toda mudança social no Brasil tem acontecido sob pressão, de maneira gradual e tardia. Por isso, apesar do partido de José Serra ter beneficiado e muito os excluídos do país, os argumentos e promessas dele convencem menos do que os … Continue reading

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Elite Squad 2: a call for political change

[UPDATE JAN. 19, 2011 With Brazilian  ticket sales of over 11 million, Elite Squad 2 premieres in the U.S. this Sunday at the Sundance Festival, hors concours. DVD sales in Brazil begin Feb. 10] Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad … Continue reading

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Fewer stray bullets/menos balas perdidas

A report released today by the Rio de Janeiro Public Safety Institute (ISP), a state agency, shows a drop in the number of victims of stray bullets, from 2009 to 2010. In the first half of this year, the victim … Continue reading

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Cinéma Verité, for real

Click here to see five short films made by Rio police in action, made available to O Globo newspaper. They show the following: 1) Operation 157, in the Pavão-Pavãozinho favela, which took place in late 2008, a year before military … Continue reading

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[UPDATE] Where do the bad guys go? / Para onde vão os bandidos?

Extra online reports that the Morro dos Macacos favela was taken by police as a first step towards pacification today (Oct. 14 2010) without any resistance, and that area drug traffickers fled last night to the south zone Rocinha and … Continue reading

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