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Security & Strategic Review: March 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)
BRAZIL: Violence moves to smaller cities in-land
Violence by Brazil's drug gangs has moved
from the main urban centres to smaller cities in the interior. Not only has this
trend been detected in a recently published retrospective study, but it has also
become manifest in an attack on a police station in the northern state of Pará.
As the recent experience of Rio de Janeiro shows, this shift does not mean
violence is ceasing in the main cities.
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