Rio de Janeiro: Control of the poor seen as crucial for the 2016 Olympics

via no2010, 9 February 2010: “The prospect of the FIFA World Cup in 2014 followed by the Olympic Games in 2016 has reignited the debate about public security in a country where there is an undeclared war taking place in the favelas between the military police, paramilitary groups, and drug traffickers, but where the principal victims are the poor…” more