Brazil: violence in (merged thread)

[davidbfpo]

The new policing is now reported on the BBC News website, after a comment by the President: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7870395.stm
Short film clip attached.

davidbfpo

[bourbon]

Brazil police occupy Sao Paulo slum after clashes, The Associated Press, February 3, 2009.

Paraisopolis and the PCC - history and symbology, by Samuel Logan. Security in Latin America, February 04, 2009.

Video - The Vice Guide to Travel: The Slums of Rio.
The High City - Shopping in Brazil's favelas.

[Mike Burgoyne]

I will be in Rio shortly looking at the security situation with the favelas.

Any advice, contacts, and/or questions I should ask would be great.

Thanks

Mike