Rio de Janeiro - nov 25 2010

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    The Police in Rio entered a heavily fortified slum in an effort to apprehend drug gang leaders they blame for days of widespread violence in the city. Officers from an elite unit of Rio's police department with support of navy seals armored vehicles made it into the Vila Cruzeiro slum despite efforts by drug gangs to block access with burning vehicles.

    Shit just got real over there. To see the amount of weaponry and manpower the drug dealers have at their disposal is scary.

    Given that the last CoD had a mission in Rio, it reminded me of this kotaku article from yesterday.

    It's still going on, the drug dealer army (quite literary) took refuge on an allied slum.

    I'm not sure what is going to happen now, if the police will keep the pressure on and hunt them down we could be facing a severe civilian casualty rate as it's very hard tofight in the slums.

    Quote from arhurt

    It's still going on, the drug dealer army (quite literary) took refuge on an allied slum.I'm not sure what is going to happen now, if the police will keep the pressure on and hunt them down we could be facing a severe civilian casualty rate as it's very hard tofight in the slums.

    isn't it also, quite literally, an uphill battle?

    That's quite sick indeed.

    We have something like this in France atm too but on a way way smaller scale. A 16 year old dude was killed some days ago in Marseille with a kalachnikov and a 11 year old boy was seriously injured, that dead guy is maybe the 6th or 7th in months to die in such conditions. All of this is linked to drug dealers in the city.

    And there's a lot of police interventions to arrest those drug dealers, the police always get some good loot in there (warfare weapons, drugs, etc).

    Quote from Skacky

    That's quite sick indeed.We have something like this in France atm too but on a way way smaller scale. A 16 year old dude was killed some days ago in Marseille with a kalachnikov and a 11 year old boy was seriously injured, that dead guy is maybe the 6th or 7th in months to die in such conditions. All of this is linked to drug dealers in the city.

    And there's a lot of police interventions to arrest those drug dealers, the police always get some good loot in there (warfare weapons, drugs, etc).

    Marseille is a scary place. Been there ten years ago and already back then i saw police casualy patroling together with soldiers with Famas rifles. Lots of shady characters on every street corner too.

    Having lived in Rio for about 10 years I can say that when shit gets like this it's really scary to go out. Their standard reaction to any government or police major action is to barricade the favela entrances, sometimes with makeshift barricades of burning tires and stolen vehicles. This time they even installed iron bars sunk deep in the pavement to prevent the light armored cars of getting close to the favelas. The favelas themselves are mazes and they can easily block passages with rubble and burning tires.

    The worst part however is their terror tactics to scare the populace and scatter police action. They burn buses and cars around the city in independent strike teams. Plant explosives around the city as well as robbing and enforcing lockdowns on specific areas closer to the favelas. On the favelas themselves they are like a dictatorial second power that can take away your belongings and your family in any way they need.

    And their numbers... god from watching the footage from today's operation, seeing the drug dealers escape in a neighbor favela. I never really realized how bad it was until today.

    Right now Police are going to hold their territory and try to hunt down the drug dealers, and I'm sure that tactical squads are making surgical strikes tonight. I just hope they can put a real hurt to their numbers and infra-structure before the human costs of this war build up enough and forces the police to back down.

    What "favela" means? Can it be translated or it's just a name?

    BTW. sad to hear that innocent people can get shoot. It will be hard do catch all the drug mobsters in such a place but I hope it will be fine!

    From Wikipedia "A favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil." They are maze-like settlements with a lot of vertical spaces and narrow corridors, in Rio most of them are located in hillsides and mountains, making it all the more difficult to navigate.

    I'm amazed that not ONE has a helmet. One has a bandanna, but that ain't gonna deflect a bullet. They must be super confident of the opposition being a bad shot.

    Quote from dux

    I'm amazed that not ONE has a helmet. One has a bandanna, but that ain't gonna deflect a bullet. They must be super confident of the opposition being a bad shot.

    It's like the Gears of war universe man, if you got a helmet, it's a matter of time 'till your dead.

    Quote from Buddy

    They can't just really afford helmets and vest afaik.

    Exactly.

    We have been building a specialized force ready to take on this kind of conflict for years now, but there is still a lot of ground to go. If you look closely, no vests, no helmets, barely any radios or comm devices either.

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