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Riowakening
Brazil through an Australian's eyes
"A good criminal is a dead criminal": Rio's civil war
"A good criminal is a dead criminal." That’s the meaning of the Portuguese words “um bandido bom é um bandido morto” on the lips of...
Murdered in Rio: A tourist’s wrong turn into hell
An Italian tourist who took a wrong turn into a favela and wound up dead with a bullet in his head today is another reminder of the...
Is Brazil safe to travel? Why tourists shouldn't worry
A newspaper front page with a little girl covered in her dead mother’s blood declared “Terrorism in Rio is everyday”. In the grisly...
Brazilian crime is prime time television
Brazil has turned its big time crime problem into prime time television. Taking the lead expertly from the USA, cameras chase Brazil’s...
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