Troops sent to contain violence in northeast Brazil: criminal gangs challenging Bolsonaro?

Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

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Brazil's government ordered troops to the northeast of the country on Friday to contain violence by criminal groups in the first test of new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's hard-line law-and-order platform. Read full article

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REF: “criminal gangs challenging Bolsonaro”:

In the end, Mutual Cooperation - joining hands - will be far more productive than “challenging” and trust the politicians to “manage” it.
Jan 05th, 2019 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
Now it's the time for aggressive social governance to be enacted. Shoot first using the entire ammunition clip and reload...
Jan 05th, 2019 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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REF: “Shoot first using the entire ammunition clip and reload...”: Well; certainly NOT before the not-so-modern Arms-Purchasing Project begins.
Jan 05th, 2019 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
This is gonna be interesting. After Mexico declared war on the drug gangs in 2006, the murder rate shot up drastically. Now many areas are ruled by the cartels, the local press is too afraid to publish news of the daily death toll, and residents have to dodge turf wars on their way to work. 2018 was the most violent year since records began and drug addiction in the US has risen again. When will they admit that the drugs have won the war?

It's hard to imagine things in Brazil could get any worse, but unfortunately reality is not bound by our imaginations. :(
Jan 05th, 2019 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Why else do you think that Brazil wants to import arms [from Israel, USA?]; if not to deliver them to the cartels?
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