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Caribbean-Latin America
Brazil Cops Kill 33 Suspected Gang Members
2006-05-17
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Police struck back Tuesday at gangs that rampaged through South America's largest city, killing 33 suspected gang members in less than 24 hours and frisking motorists at roadblocks while reporting only one death of their own. At least 133 people — including 40 police officers — have been killed since Friday night, when a prison transfer of gang leaders sparked attacks on police stations, courts, city buses and other symbols of government authority.

But while gang attacks fell off sharply in Sao Paulo on Tuesday, the death toll within their ranks rose dramatically. Officers "acted within the law, but that doesn't mean we have to let them humiliate us," Marco Antonio Desgualdo, a top Sao Paulo state law enforcement official, told reporters. He did not give specifics about the killings. Separately, prison officials said the bodies of 18 inmates were found after police retook control of dozens of jails where prisoners rioted at the same time that gang members attacked officers across Sao Paulo.
Posted by:Fred

#1  If this was Baghdad it would have been plastered all over the nightly news and papers in America, but when insurgents gangs do this in Brazil, it's buried under the tv listings for Univision.
Posted by: Jetch Jerenter8926   2006-05-17 09:14  

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