Gritty Film About Rio's Drug War, Told From Police Perspective, Is the Talk of Brazil
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- After taking a phone call last week, director JosÃÂ© Padilha stepped onto the patio of his studio and told a business partner that the intense discussion provoked by his latest film had spread to yet another sphere of Brazilian society.
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EL MIRADOR, Colombia -- The latest shift in Colombia's war on drugs is evident on a green hilltop in this town, as weather-beaten men in gray jumpsuits -- government-paid eradicators -- use hoes and muscle to rip out bushes of coca. Policemen carrying M-16 assault rifles and land-mine detectors...
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The black berets and uniforms of  the brutal police unit featured in the controversial movie  "Elite Squad" are a favorite costume for this year's Carnival  in Rio de Janeiro -- and a reminder of the violence afflicting  the city.
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Amnesty International warns of an imminent gang war in two Rio slums unless police in the Brazilian city act.
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Beginning Sunday, Brazil's air force may shoot down small planes suspected of carrying drugs under a law meant to stem the flow of cocaine pouring into the country at clandestine landing strips in the vast Amazon rainforest.
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A big police operation continues in a group of Rio shanty towns, as Brazilian police confront drug dealers.
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When machinegun-toting hit men fought a bloody battle with police and troops around the Mexico town of Cananea that left 23 dead in May, it at first seemed to be the latest chapter in a very Mexican drug war.
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LOS ANGELES  - The story of one of the  biggest drug busts in U.S. history, subject of the  Oscar-winning feature "The French Connection," is coming to  television.
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It wasn't supposed to be released until Thursday, but for weeks already, pirated copies of the feature film "Elite Squad" &#151; about the shady workings of Rio's Special Operations Police Battalion &#151; has been a best-seller at street stalls across Brazil.
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By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Police armed with riflesand wearing flak jackets manned checkpoints across Rio deJaneiro on Thursday to prevent muggings and other violence astourists flocked to the ocean city for the holiday season.
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Brazilian Cao Hamburger, whose film looks at his country's dark past, is the latest director to describe the brutality of South America's military dictatorships through the eyes of a child.
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Police said Saturday they have arrested one of Rio de Janeiro's most-wanted drug lords.
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A drama about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, shot by police in London in 2005, is being made by a UK film company.
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Open fire on flying Saint Nick A Brazilian Santa en route to a kids' party in a Rio de Janeiro favela (slum) was forced to seek an alternative means of transport after drug traffickers opened fire on his helicopter, the Telegraph reports.â¦
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Jose Carlos dos Reis Encina, once Brazil's most notorious drug lords, was gunned down on a major avenue Thursday, police said.
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The Deauville Film Festival awarded its top prize on Sunday to "Maria Full of Grace," a documentary-like tale of the travails of a teenage drug runner from Colombia.
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Human rights groups criticized Brazilian authorities on Friday for endorsing a new police offensive against urban crime in which a dozen people were killed in Rio de Janeiro and security forces were deployed around the capital Brasilia.