Duck and cover: Three survival lessons for Rio’s criminals
A commentary on Rio and the situation after the federal government took control of security in February 2018. Just whether the agility of the gangs can be overcome by the nation-state is a moot point. Quite a few embedded links to plunder.
Link:https://shoc.rusi.org/informer/duck-...riminals%C2%A0
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Urban security: when gangs and militias run the streets
Catching up on IISS offerings I found this month old article by Antonio Sampaio, their SME on urban conflict and especially Brazil's cities. He visited Mare, a favela in Rio and reports:Link:https://www.iiss.org/blogs/analysis/...8-005056be3f90Three years after the withdrawal of military forces, Maré is firmly back in the grasp of criminal factions.
Last edited by davidbfpo; 11-25-2018 at 05:54 PM. Reason: 82,079v today
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https://www.bloombergquint.com/law-a...iro#gs.nFZUJ7s(Bloomberg) -- Teams of marksmen next year will patrol swaths of Rio de Janeiro with high-powered weapons and a license to kill, said a security adviser to Governor-elect Wilson Witzel.
As many as 120 sharpshooters will accompany police incursions into the slums of Brazil’s postcard city to exterminate gun-toting criminals, according to Flavio Pacca, a longtime associate of Witzel who the governor-elect’s press office said will join the administration. The shooters will work in pairs -- one to pull the trigger, one to monitor conditions and videotape deaths.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
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