Rio de Janeiro on the edge of Civil War - Page 15

Around two million of Rio's inhabitants – a third of the population – live in more than 1,000 slums, locally known as "favelas".

Authorities hope to pacify 100 of the most violent ones by 2014.

Source:
Al Jazeera and agencies

On November 29 2010 00:30 D10 wrote:
well its official guys, we won the battle, easily.

ironically, this did nothing to really change the major Rio de Janeiro short and longterm avaliabily of drug.

Just pacifyed the most dangerous favela in the world tho, so i guess its really badass.

There you have a nice script for Tropa de Elite 3

On November 28 2010 18:43 Boblion wrote:

Because Helmets aren't really that useful. They can't do shit vs bullets for example. I think that they are used mostly for shock waves, shell fragments, falls etc...

I think that they prefer to have better awareness and less weight on their head.

On November 29 2010 01:16 Alizee- wrote:


That's the dumbest thing I've heard in a while. A US Marine in Afghanistan suffered two concussions, both times getting hit in the head from an 7.62x39 round from an AK. Guess why he survived and was able to keep going? His helmet. The fact they're not wearing helmets is just plain stupid, however, based on their gear from the pictures they're not well funded enough especially for how specialized they're supposed to be. Irons on everything, no plates, etc. etc.

On November 29 2010 02:18 Delta__ wrote:
Well well well, the police took control of the most dangerous favela of the entire country, and this place was like the HQ of a very big criminal organization called Red Command, as far as I know, just TODAY they have found like 6 tons of cacaine, this quantity of cocaine usualy takes 3 months to be seized. They also found some .30 rifles, lots of ammo and U$ 30.000.

It's important to notice that the Red Command is the only organization that sells the Crack drug, and this drug is actually the most dangeours one because it's very cheap and ppl gets addicted to it really fast. So taking the Red Command down is a very important achievement for Rio.

The governator said on tv that he wants to continue the pacification process in Rio and take control of all the rest of the favelas that are controled by gangs, and I guess that if they were able to make it in the most dangeours favela they'll have no problem to do it in the others. That's why I am very confident that Rio is gonna be A LOT better and less dangeours by the time of the WC and olympic games.

An important thing to say is that no inocent people were killed during the operations today, not even one. That's really good, shows that even though the gangs are very well armed, our policemen are way more superior than they are.

The last thing to say about this operation is that the police says it's going to take some time, like one mounth, to finish sweeping the entire area and after that they'll be able to get into another operation to take control of another favela. The next one is problably Rocinha, because the same way Complexo do Alemão was a HQ to Red Command, Rocinha is the HQ of the second biggest criminal organization of Rio.

Thanks for all of you for caring about Brazil and what happened in here.

On November 29 2010 02:24 Squeegy wrote:


30k? Some guns? Either this is the tip of the iceberg and they will find a lot more in the following days and weeks or something's not right. In the war against cartels Mexico has found ridiculous amounts of stuff and from what I've read this place was so infested with criminals that there should be a lot more.

On November 29 2010 02:31 D10 wrote:

I bet 10 bucks that police will find a secret underground tunnel in the next week.

On November 28 2010 17:05 Golden Ghost wrote:
A little side question:
I have seen a lot of pictures of BOPE members these last few days but in none of them they are wearing a helmet. In other countries the special forces teams that I know of all wear them just like the military as can also be seen in the above pictures.

Is there a reason why BOPE isn't using helmets?

On November 29 2010 05:08 r3z3nd3 wrote:
Funny how Rio had all this firepower and never did anything. But this is really good news, putting all those drug dealers in jail.

On another news...

Well, g the police found 4 tons of weed? My gosh, prices are going up....
And, in case you are wondering, no, I don't smoke.

Edit: Nvm, news say they arrested (is this the word?) more than 10 tons of drugs. Holy Check!
Badass Pic:
http://noticias.uol.com.br/album/20101123rio_album.jhtm?abrefoto=182#fotoNav=164