Tag: Paraiba

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Brazilian municipal runoffs in 57 cities with plenty of “wild west” shooting and killings in campaigns

  

  Brazilians return to the polls in 57 cities on Sunday for the runoffs of municipal elections that have seen surging violence involving assassinations and physical attacks on candidates.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil criminal gang breaks into top security jail and let 100 inmates escape

  

  Heavily armed men blew down the front gate of a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil early Monday and with guns blazing, enabled more than 100 inmates to escape while killing a policeman, authorities said.