Rio de Janeiro: Control of the Poor Seen as Crucial for the Olympics

[Derechos]

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.

[Judi Lynn]

1. We heard the government got very rough with people prior to their Olympics, too,

Thanks for bringing up this subject.

Hope they will realize the world is watching from now until then, and will temper their horrible, old, old murderous pattern of behavior toward the helpless to please the merchant class, and others.