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Violence flares in Rio’s slums months before Summer Olympics

Clip: 5/31/2016 | 10m 24s

Violence is flaring in the notorious favelas surrounding Rio de Janeiro.

As Brazil prepares for its first Olympic Games, violence is flaring in the notorious favelas surrounding Rio de Janeiro. While a paramilitary policing initiative known as “pacification” stemmed the tide of drugs and crime for a while, economic downturn and widespread police brutality have once again turned the slum districts into war zones. Special correspondent Lulu Garcia-Navarro of NPR reports.

05/31/2016 | Rating NR

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