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Brazil: Questions Surrounding Rio's ‘Pacifying Police' Units
globalvoicesonline.org 1 day, 3 hours agoThis post is part of our special coverage International Relations & Security . The 18th Rio UPP was launched in November 2011 in the Mangueira neighborhood which has 20,000 inhabitants. Image by SEASDH on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). In recent years, the state government of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has adopted a security policy based on the installation of Pacifying Police Units (Unidades de Polícia Pacificadoras), known as UPPs. The aim of the UPP strategy [pt] is to place permanent police units in favelas (sh
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Brazil Moves To Cut Hotel Costs Before Rio+20
seattletimes.nwsource.com 2 weeks agoBrazil is taking steps to lower the spiraling cost of accommodations during the United Nations' upcoming conference on sustainable development, the office of President Dilma Rousseff said Wednesday.










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