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<strong>The long read</strong>: Flordelis grew up in a Rio favela, but rose to fame after adopting more than 50 children, becoming a hugely successful gospel singer and winning a seat in congress. And now she is on trial for murder
Police have been ordered into the streets of the Brazilian city of Manaus, amid a wave of attacks on buses, cars and banks that began on Saturday night and forced the city to halt public transportation and left some residents afraid to leave home.
The Red Command is known for its heavy involvement in drug and weapons trafficking, a key conduit for weapons and drugs arriving from nearby Colombia and Venezuela before being shipped on to the US and southern Latin America.
English Analysis on Colombia and 3 other countries about Health, Protection and Human Rights and Epidemic; published on 12 May 2021 by ACLED
‘They came to kill’: Rio’s deadliest favela police raid sparks calls for change Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Shaken, shoeless and with a gaping bullet wound to one of his feet, the young man staggered through Flávia Luciana’s front door at around 8am last Thursday as Rio’s decades-long drug conflict plumbed horrifying new depths. “Help me! For the love of God! Help!” she remembers him pleading as he sought shelter inside. It would be one of his last acts. About 30 minutes later, witnesses say a small group of police special forces appeared outside on Saint Man...