5 days ago by Brazil Institute

Samantha Pearson-The Financial Times, 11/04/09 A group of teenagers loitering outside Bob’s, Brazil’s equivalent of McDonald’s, adjust the machine guns slung over their shoulders as they turn to fixate on a passing tour bus. “No pictures! No pictures!” shouts the guide at the English and American pa ...

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11 days ago by tiberge

Violence in Fréjus: Fire and Blood There have been two nights of violence in the southern city of Fréjus (photo above). Numerous sources give accounts of the outbreak. First, Novopress : For forty-eight hours, Fréjus has seen fire and blood after the death in an accident last Sunday of Mohamed el-Ma ...

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12 days ago by Brazil Institute

The non-governmental organization, Rio Como Vamos, contracted the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics ( IBOPE) to discover Rio de Janeiro residents’ biggest fears. IBOPE discovered that what residents fear the most are stray bullets. The report interviewed 1,358 people in Rio de Jan ...

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12 days ago by Brazil Institute

The Associated Press, 10/29/09 Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says Rio de Janeiro is capable of hosting a safe 2016 Olympics and the city will show it deserved to win the games. At the launch of a gym and cultural center inside a city slum Wednesday, Silva said Rio will be ready for the ...

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13 days ago by Brazil Institute

Graham Dunbar-The Associated Press, 10/27/09 Photo courtesy of flickr user Rodrigo_Soldon The International Olympic Committee is sending an expert team to Brazil on Wednesday to begin shaping the $14.4 billion games with Rio’s organizing committee and government agencies … Security and public safety ...

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17 days ago by Mr. Trend

Randy points us to this article in The Economist. The article does a great job explaining succinctly why A) there appears to be so much violence in Rio, and B) why it's in the favelas, and not a city-wide event: "A further reason for Rio’s spectacular violence is that it has three large, competing d ...

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18 days ago by Brazil Institute

The Economist, 10/22/09 Why a tight market for drugs may be contributing to recent violence …The city is pockmarked by a history of bad government. Past mistakes include making accommodations with drug-dealing factions in the hope of keeping them peaceful. Rio’s police force is also part of the prob ...

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19 days ago by Brazil Institute

Stephen Wilson-The Associated Press, 10/20/09 The IOC expressed confidence Tuesday that Brazil will deliver a safe Olympics in 2016 despite the weekend violence between rival drug gangs that killed 21 people in Rio de Janeiro. The firefight, which brought down a police helicopter, took place in the ...

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20 days ago by Brazil Institute

Alexei Barrionuevo-The New York Times, 10/20/2009 Just over two weeks ago, this striking city landed the 2016 Olympic Games, the first ever in South America, setting off a sweaty, impromptu beach party that lasted most of the weekend. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil sobbed with happine ...

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21 days ago by Brazil Institute

Alan Clendenning-The Associated Press, 10/19/09 Brazil’s president promised Monday to battle drug traffickers who launched a weekend of bloody chaos that killed 21 people in Rio de Janeiro just two weeks after the city won the 2016 Olympic games. “We’ll do anything it takes and make all necessary sa ...

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