Tag: drug trafficking

Brazil’s Lula Tells Trump at UN that Organized Crime Is Not Terrorism

Much of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s address at the opening of ...

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Thiago Rodrigues
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Drug Traffickers and Evangelicals Join Hands in Rio for Holy War Against Priests and Afro-Brazilian Gods

Israeli flags fly from the highest spots of the hills surrounding the Cidade Alta ...

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Kristina Hinz, Doriam Borges, Aline Coutinho, Thiago Cury Andries
Armed police raid a slum in Rio de Janeiro

In Shock, World Asks for Probe Over Police Massacre in Rio’s Favela

The United Nations said it was “deeply disturbed” by the killings of 28 people ...

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Pictures of a younger Luiz Carlos da Rocha and now

After 30 Years and Plastic Surgery, Police Nab Brazil’s Number One Druglord

Police have captured one of South America’s biggest cocaine kingpins, Luiz Carlos da Rocha, ...

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Alistair Walsh

35,000 Troops Guard Brazil’s Frontiers. Most Are in the Amazon

Drug seizures are not infrequent in Brazil’s Amazon region. In early January alone, the ...

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Heloisa Cristaldo