Monday 5 January 2015

Guns, drugs and bandidos: inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police

Guns, drugs and bandidos: inside the favela too violent for Rio’s armed police


“Yeah, I want to get out,” says Ricardo, 21. Then, relaxing, he takes the hand-grenade he has been toying with on his lap and places it amid the beer bottles on the table. In Vila Aliança in Bangu, western Rio, this is not particularly unusual behaviour. Outsiders rarely come to this lawless favela – a centre of the drugs trade in Rio de Janeiro – and the armed bandidos who guard the area from police raids and rival gangs had been monitoring my approach for miles.

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