Brazil: Police Drive Drug Gangs Out of Rio Favela, Restore Law and Order

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | December 1st, 2010 | Trackback

Continuing a two-year effort to drive drug gangs out of the favelas overlooking Rio de Janeiro and establish police posts to restore the rule of law, police took control of a key neighborhood that sits near a highway that connects the city with the international airport. The assault had to happen because the drug gangs had staged multiple attacks on nearby highways conducting mass robberies of motorists and burning more than 100 cars and buses. Now that the Alemao area has been pacified, police are setting their sights on other districts. Eradicating endemic criminality in the favelas is critical to Rio’s hopes of hosting a successful soccer World Cup in 2014 and Olympics in 2016.

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