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Brazil & Southern Cone - May 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Wracked by insecurity
Official statistics on homicides in Brazil are few and far between, having last been updated in 2015. But unofficial studies suggest violent crime is spiralling out of control. A survey released on 8 May by local pollster DataFolha found that 50m Brazilians (a third of the population) know a friend or family member who was murdered.
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