Body count rises in Brazil’s drug war

Cartels, police fight in streets for control of Rio de Janeiro

By Luis Vieira, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

“While U.S. attention has focused on the raging drug war just south of the border in Mexico, the battle to control drugs in Brazil is taking more lives. In Brazil, 35,000 people were fatally shot in 2007, and most of the deaths were drug-related. According to the government’s public safety secretariat, there are nearly 23,000 drug-related homicides a year.”

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