Human Wrongs Watch
By Kristina Hinz Doriam Borges, Aline Coutinho, Thiago Cury Andries*
In Rio de Janeiro, drug trafficking factions, paramilitaries and evangelical churches have united to fight a ‘holy war’ against their rivals.
Armed men in front of a football field | Ricardo Funari//BrazilPhotos/Alamy Stock Photo
6 May 2021 (openDemocracy)* — Israeli flags fly from the highest spots of the hills surrounding the Cidade Alta favela in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Checkpoints, raised to prevent the entry of police and rival groups, display the Star of David to warn passers-by whose territory they are entering.
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