The Embassy Cables: Brazil drug problems aren’t new

Dec. 7, 2010   2 Comments  

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A small civil war broke out briefly in Brazil in November, as the government tried to clamp down on Rio de Janeiro’s massive drug and gang problem. Boston.com’s Big Picture blog captured the scene wonderfully. But as a December 2005 cable posted Tuesday by Wikileaks reveals, the problem is nothing new. On November 30, 2005, [...]