Porous Brazilian borders feed Olympic Rio gangs with heavy weapons

Wednesday, October 28th 2009 - 07:18 UTC

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The Brazilian Federal Police identified 17 places through which illegal weapons are introduced into the country, including most of those used by organized crime such as heavy machine guns capable of downing a helicopter as recently happened in one of the favelas, the shanty towns that speck Olympic city of Rio do Janeiro. Read full article

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Bubba
Hmm, the only country bordering brazil that is not a source of weapons, Colombia, who have showe a serious attempt to stop terrorism and drug smuggling..
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