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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2006 (ISSN 1741-4431)
BRAZIL: The return of the death squad
In mid June there was a small-scale repeat of the prison riots that brought the city of São Paulo to its knees in May. Receiving much less attention has been the continued activities of the death squads in Brazil's largest city, who were reactivated during the
megarrebelião.
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