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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 31 January 2020

BRAZIL: Police arrested in operation against ‘milícia’ in Rio

On 30 January, the public prosecutor’s office in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state (MPRJ) arrested 33 people, including 11 current or former police officers, as part of an operation against the ‘milícia’ paramilitary vigilante groups which operate in some of the state’s disadvantaged neighbourhoods. 

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