Items tagged with violence and brazil
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Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean [01.03.2020] | The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expan ... |
‘They came to kill.’ Almost 5 die daily at hands of Rio police [26.05.2019] | Shooting from helicopters, armored personnel carriers or at close range, police officers in Rio de Janeiro have gunned down 558 people during the fir ... |
‘They have free rein’: Rio residents fear police violence under far-right rule [17.05.2019] | During campaigning last year, Rio’s new, far-right governor, Wilson Witzel, promised a “slaughter” of gun-toting drug gangsters using helicopters and ... |
Unfazed by Brazil's army, Rio drug gangs willing to wait out occupation [24.04.2018] | Leaders of Rio de Janeiro's heavily armed drug gangs agree on at least one thing with the head of Brazil's army: An ongoing military intervention can ... |
Brazil must legalise drugs – its existing policy just destroys lives [15.11.2017] | The war raging in Rocinha, Latin America’s largest favela, has already been lost. Rooted in a dispute between gangs for control of drug trafficking, ... |
Death toll mounts in Rio de Janeiro as police lose control of the city – and of themselves [17.07.2017] | Even in Brazil, where homicides are really common, Rio de Janeiro’s crime rate is stunning. It is now impossible not to notice that the city’s Police ... |
Wrecking to ‘revitalise’: São Paulo expels drug users and razes buildings, claiming public safety [16.06.2017] | On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown neighbourhood where, since the late 1990s, hundreds to thousands of crack-cocaine ... |
Beyond Olympic glow, a vicious drug war rages in Rio [10.08.2016] | In the shadow of the Olympics, a slow-burning war between drug gangs and the nation’s security forces is taking place. As the casualties mount in the ... |
What can be learned from Brazil’s “pacification” police model? [10.03.2016] | When national and local public safety personnel in Latin America want to turn away from “mano dura” approaches to the problem of alarmingly high rate ... |
Why is Rio de Janeiro so dangerous? [18.02.2015] | While Brazil has the dubious honor of having the highest homicide rate in the world – with 56,337 killings reported in 2013 – Rio has the most number ... |
Fixing a broken system [28.12.2014] | Despite efforts by governments in Latin America, illicit drugs continue to provide one of the largest incomes for criminal organizations, enabling th ... |
Do falling murders in Rio mean success for Brazil's UPPs? [18.12.2013] | Homicides have fallen 65 percent in the Rio de Janeiro favelas where Police Pacification Units have been installed during four years of the flagship ... |
Why do Brazilian police kill? [20.11.2013] | An average of five people were killed by police every day in Brazil last year, according to an annual security report, revealing an entrenched cultur ... |
Whither Rio de Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units? [18.11.2013] | Rio de Janeiro’s Pacification Police Units (UPP) are celebrating their fifth year in 2013. They do so with generally positive approval ratings from t ... |
Rio police charged over torture and death of missing favela man [02.10.2013] | Ten police in Rio de Janeiro have been charged with the torture and killing of a resident of the city's biggest favela in a case that has highlighted ... |
Could drug decriminalization save Brazil’s slums? [24.10.2012] | Brazil has been struggling with drug violence for years. The problem got so bad that the country passed a law in 2006 to distinguish between dealers ... |
Q&A: “Pacification of favelas not a real public policy yet” [17.09.2012] | The "pacification" of the favelas in this Brazilian city, aimed at driving out armed groups and fighting drug trafficking, has not yet become a fully ... |
A breakthrough in the making? [25.06.2012] | Remarkable drug policy developments are taking place in Latin America. This is not only at the level of political debate, but is also reflected in ac ... |
‘Pacification’ of favelas not just a media circus [16.11.2011] | The "take-over" of Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, by heavily armed police and military units was seen by some as a media spectacle ... |
Slum raids in Rio de Janeiro impress [14.11.2011] | The police blitzes in this Olympic city’s biggest slums are meant to show the world that Rio is winning the fight against violent drug gangs that hav ... |
From war on drugs to community policing in Rio [01.06.2011] | Four decades after Washington declared its "war on drugs" and began to spread the doctrine south of the U.S. border, the government of the Brazilian ... |
Conquering Complexo do Alemão [02.12.2010] | It was a moment that residents of Rio de Janeiro thought would never come. For decades many of the city’s favelas have been ruled by drug traffickers ... |
Police occupation hurts improved relations with favelas [30.11.2010] | Reports of human rights abuses committed during the police and military occupation of several favelas in this Brazilian city are jeopardising local r ... |
Militias in Rio de Janeiro [05.11.2010] | Last month the film Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2) was released in Brazil. It is a sequel to the very successful 2007 film Elite Squad, a semi-fict ... |
Saturation policing criminalises poverty, activists say [02.06.2010] | The policy of a saturation police presence in the favelas or shantytowns that are home to around 20 percent of the population of Rio de Jnaeiro is mer ... |
Mixed reviews for ‘community policing’ in slums [21.05.2009] | The police, who used to shoot first and ask questions later in Santa Marta, a Rio de Janeiro shantytown, are now getting on well with the local commu ... |
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