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Brazil's army returns to Rio favela amid clashes between gangs and police
Topic Started: Sep 23 2017, 06:23 AM (409 Views)
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Army heads to Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro after schools, businesses and a major road closed during fighting between drug gang members and police

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Brazil's army sent to quell Rio favela violence
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Soldiers are sent to help Rio police after heavily-armed drug gangs fought over its biggest favela.
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The Brazilian army was deployed in one of Rio de Janeiro's largest favelas, Rocinha, after six days of clashes between rival drug gangs. The shanty town is home to an estimated 70,000 people living on hillsides overlooking wealthy western Rio.
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Sep 23 2017, 06:26 AM
Brazil's army sent to quell Rio favela violence
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Soldiers are sent to help Rio police after heavily-armed drug gangs fought over its biggest favela.
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The Brazilian army was deployed in one of Rio de Janeiro's largest favelas, Rocinha, after six days of clashes between rival drug gangs. The shanty town is home to an estimated 70,000 people living on hillsides overlooking wealthy western Rio.
Time for another military coup................. :hooray:
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Rio de Janeiro's drug war
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A member of the armed forces takes up position during a operation after violent clashes between drug gangs in Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Brazil decades behind other countries in fighting inequality
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A Brazilian earning the minimum wage would have to work for 19 years to earn as much as what a rich person in the country's top 0.1 percent makes in one month, Oxfam revealed today.

New research by the international agency shows that at the current pace, it would take Brazil 75 years to reach the United Kingdom’s current level of income equality, or 30 to Argentina’s.

Despite lifting millions of people out of poverty over the last decades, Brazil still faces a huge gap between the country’s richest and the rest of the population. Previously, Oxfam had revealed that just six people own as much money as the poorest half of the country.
Edited by Che On The Rocks, Sep 26 2017, 08:08 AM.
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Rio de Janeiro's drug war
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A member of the armed forces takes up position during a operation after violent clashes between drug gangs in Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Brazil decades behind other countries in fighting inequality
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A Brazilian earning the minimum wage would have to work for 19 years to earn as much as what a rich person in the country's top 0.1 percent makes in one month, Oxfam revealed today.

New research by the international agency shows that at the current pace, it would take Brazil 75 years to reach the United Kingdom’s current level of income equality, or 30 to Argentina’s.

Despite lifting millions of people out of poverty over the last decades, Brazil still faces a huge gap between the country’s richest and the rest of the population. Previously, Oxfam had revealed that just six people own as much money as the poorest half of the country.
Has this changed in the last 100 years ???.................. :dunno:
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Yes, a tiny bit. During Lula and Dilma administrations.
That is why the Brazilian oligarchy -with quite support from Wall Street- ousted them. :cool:
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Rio’s kids are dying in the crossfire of a wave of violence
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An unborn boy’s lung is punctured by a bullet while still in the womb. A 2-year-old girl is shot in the head while playing at a restaurant. Three stray bullets cut down a 13-year-old during physical education class at school.

Rio de Janeiro, which just a year ago was in the global spotlight as it hosted the Summer Olympics, has always struggled with crime. But amid a national economic crisis that has exacerbated deep problems of inequality, this city famous for both its glamorous beaches and its sprawling slums is experiencing a wave of violence that’s the worst in a decade.
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In this Aug. 20,2017 photo, girls watch a demonstration calling for peace, demanding an end to the violence between drug gangs and police, at the Manguinhos slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Amid a national economic crisis that has exacerbated deep problems of inequality, this city famous for both its glamorous beaches and its sprawling slums is experiencing a wave of violence that’s among the highest in a decade. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Primitives.................. :shakeshead:
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Tourists... :cool:

Madonna faces social media backlash over Rio police photo
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Madonna has caused a social media controversy in Brazil by posting a photo of herself dressed in army camouflage fatigues with military police in Rio de Janeiro.

The photograph was shared on Wednesday, two days after Rio military police shot dead a Spanish tourist leaving the Rocinha favela on Monday.
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Madonna posted the photo on social media before it was reposted by the official Rio military police Twitter
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Tourists... :cool:

Madonna faces social media backlash over Rio police photo
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Madonna has caused a social media controversy in Brazil by posting a photo of herself dressed in army camouflage fatigues with military police in Rio de Janeiro.

The photograph was shared on Wednesday, two days after Rio military police shot dead a Spanish tourist leaving the Rocinha favela on Monday.
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Madonna posted the photo on social media before it was reposted by the official Rio military police Twitter
Anti 2nd Amendment Madona seems to not have a problem with Armed men around her for protection. :lol:
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Artists in Rio de Janeiro Demand Back Pay in Unique Protest
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IN PICTURES: Dancers and musicians took to the streets in an artistic protest to demand the state pay their back wages.
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Ballet dancers perform during a protest of the theater's artists against the non-payment of their salaries in Rio de Janeiro.
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Brazil's Minister of Justice Accuses Rio De Janeiro's Military Police of Corruption
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"We will question the minister in court and ask him to explain what he said," the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando Pezao, told Reuters.
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File Photo: Brazil's Transparency Minister Torquato Jardim looks on during a news conference at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, June 2, 2016. | Photo: Reuters
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Since when does a government employ ballet dancers ???....Are they used for national emergencies or for delivering the mail ???............. :confused:
Edited by Robert Stout, Nov 3 2017, 09:40 AM.
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Brazil Police Accused of Killing 7 During Raid on Favela Party
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Brazil has the highest number of homicides in the world, with the majority of victims being young Black men.
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Police patrol a working-class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. | Photo: Reuters

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Homeless in Rio skyrockets, creating tensions, violence
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One night about a year ago, Leandro Mota Generoso was sleeping on a street in downtown Rio de Janeiro when he felt something jagged strike his face.

Somebody — he didn’t see the person, but believes it was a resident in the neighborhood — had slashed his nose with broken glass from a Vodka bottle. He awoke in a pool of blood.

“I can’t sleep at night anymore,” said Generoso, 23, who has been homeless since the grandfather who was raising him died five years ago. “To many people, we are rats, garbage or whatever thing.”

“That is the reality, and now there are many more homeless in the streets,” he added.

A year after Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympic Games, a grinding economic crisis has led to an influx of thousands of homeless people, creating a climate of tension that city officials are scrambling to address.
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In this Dec. 6, 2017 photo, Silvana Regina Venceslao, 33, who has four children and is six month pregnant, rests outside the public defender’s office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While some of the nearly 2,200 beds in shelters go empty each night, successfully convincing more homeless people to use them could create its own problems, as there are vastly more potential users than space for them. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Brazil Police Accused of Killing 7 During Raid on Favela Party
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Brazil has the highest number of homicides in the world, with the majority of victims being young Black men.
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Police patrol a working-class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. | Photo: Reuters

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Other Latin American countries have a higher RATE of homicide....In South America homicide is often viewed as urban renewal....... :)
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Homeless in Rio skyrockets, creating tensions, violence
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One night about a year ago, Leandro Mota Generoso was sleeping on a street in downtown Rio de Janeiro when he felt something jagged strike his face.

Somebody — he didn’t see the person, but believes it was a resident in the neighborhood — had slashed his nose with broken glass from a Vodka bottle. He awoke in a pool of blood.

“I can’t sleep at night anymore,” said Generoso, 23, who has been homeless since the grandfather who was raising him died five years ago. “To many people, we are rats, garbage or whatever thing.”

“That is the reality, and now there are many more homeless in the streets,” he added.

A year after Rio de Janeiro hosted the Olympic Games, a grinding economic crisis has led to an influx of thousands of homeless people, creating a climate of tension that city officials are scrambling to address.
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In this Dec. 6, 2017 photo, Silvana Regina Venceslao, 33, who has four children and is six month pregnant, rests outside the public defender’s office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While some of the nearly 2,200 beds in shelters go empty each night, successfully convincing more homeless people to use them could create its own problems, as there are vastly more potential users than space for them. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Brazil's homeless should be relocated to the Amazon jungle where they can build their own home, a grass hut........ :)
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Brazil: Gunmen storm Fortaleza nightclub killing 14
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Gunmen have stormed a nightclub in north-east Brazil, killing at least 14 people.
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The nightclub is located on the outskirts of Fortaleza, in north-east Brazil
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Rio de Janeiro violence: Brazil army to take control of security
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The Brazilian government has appointed an army general to oversee security in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in response to growing gang violence.
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Rio de Janeiro has seen levels of violent crime soar amid a financial crisis
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s**thole.
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Another example of the failures of the Socialist state...
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Brazil's current President is right-wing, conservative, capitalist.

Just saying. :cool:
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