Margolis, Mac 1/1/1997 - 31/12/2024
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1 Brazil: Brazil's New Drug HabitMon, 28 May 2001
Source:Newsweek (US) Author:Margolis, Mac Area:Brazil Lines:239 Added:05/29/2001

Complexo da Mare, sprawling over the flatlands behind Rio's sparkling Guanabara Bay, has long been a desolate place. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of poor people have flocked to the slum in search of work and a better life. Few found either and, packed into shanties, many of the most desperate residents turned to crime to make a living. But in the past two years, Mare and other favelas--collectively home to 17 percent of Rio's citizens--have become killing fields. Teenagers armed with AK-47s, AR-15s, Walthers, Uzis, hand grenades, even rocket launchers, shoot it out night after night, destroying homes and shops and killing civilians. What has made a tough neighborhood almost maniacally violent?

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