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Name: Police declare war on Rio drug traffickers - 02 Jan 08
Uploaded: 2012-04-25T18:06:51+00:00
Duration: 3 min 34 s
Channel: Al Jazeera English
Description: Police have declared war on drug traffickers in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The policy by Rio's new governor to send heavily armed special forces into he city's notoriously dangerous favelas -- or slums -- is being applauded by law and order advocates. But as Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman discovered, for those living inside the slums, it looks and feels like a war zone.

Al Jazeera English

Police have declared war on drug traffickers in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The policy by Rio's new governor to send heavily armed special forces into he city's notoriously dangerous favelas -- or slums -- is being applauded by law and order advocates. But as Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman discovered, for those living inside the slums, it looks and feels like a war zone.

Police declare war on Rio drug traffickers - 02 Jan 08

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