Thursday, May 31, 2007

Drug Gang's Rule of Rio Slums Is Challenged as Combat Police, Tank Move In

(Bloomberg) -- Residents of Rio de Janeiro slums
know it's time to run for cover when they see a black armored
police tank climbing up the narrow streets.

The tank -- dubbed the ``big skull'' -- is one of the
weapons the state is using in its attempt to wrest back control
of the so-called German Complex. The 130,000 people in the
sprawling slums, about 20 minutes from downtown, have lived more
than a decade under the rule of the Red Command, Rio's most
powerful drug gang.


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