Militias, corruption and Covid: Rio de Janeiro's deepening crisis
Militias, corruption and Covid: Rio de Janeiro’s deepening crisis In a country that has barely grown for a decade, Brazil’s most famous city is mired in heavy debt and violent crime 07 March 2021 - 19:19 By Bryan Harris Alice Pamplona da Silva celebrated her fifth birthday last year the way a child should. Her parents presented her with cake and muffins, each bedecked in luminous icing and cut-out images of the Little Mermaid. Her hair tied in long braids, Alice beams at the family photographer. By the first minutes of the new year, Alice would be dead, hit in the neck by a st...
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