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Security & Strategic Review October 2009 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BRAZIL: Rio police intervention in gang war leaves high toll
A confrontation between rival drug gangs in
Rio, and the police claimed 25 lives in the second half of October. The
episode attracted more than the usual international attention because it came a
fortnight after Rio was selected as the venue for the 2016 Olympics. This has
spurred the government into taking additional security
measures.
- As US-Colombia bases deal is signed, Lula calls for all-round transparency
- PARAGUAY: The slow realization that the EPP guerrillas exist
- COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: Judicial snag slows fast-track rapprochement
- POINTERS
- BRAZIL: Rio police intervention in gang war leaves high toll
- CHILE: Secessionist Mapuche radicals declare 'war'
- POINTERS
- MEXICO: 'Eco-anarchists' graduate from arson to bombs
- POINTERS
- EL SALVADOR: Funes may devote 6,500 more troops to policing
- HONDURAS: Both sides agree on mechanism for a solution
- POINTERS
- REGION: Arms transfers as instruments of foreign policy