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3. But getting back to Brazil's policing problem:

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 07:53 PM

Jan 2015

It's worth remembering that, as bad as crime is there, the critical situation they have by way of police corruption and brutality is at least as longstanding, serious, and real.

That -and their foreign debt burden- is perhaps the worst legacy from the 21-year dictatorship that ended in 1985.

http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/death-squads-terrorize-rio-de-janeiro-as-brazil-readies-for-world-cup/

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