On March 22nd, police in Rio de Janeiro clashed with demonstrators outside the city's Maracanã football stadium, where members of various indigenous groups had been squatting in protest. Earlier, the protesters had received eviction notices from the government, which planned to build a new parking lot where their homes then stood.
Less than a week later, an American tourist was brutally gang raped on a transit van near Rio's popular Copacabana district. The 21-year-old woman was abducted along with her boyfriend, who was beaten with a metal pole and forced to witness her assault at the hands of their three captors.
Circumstantially, the events were unrelated; one stemmed from a deliberate social policy, the other from a random act of...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/29/4340348/rio-brazil-fights-crime-inequality-ahead-of-world-cup-olympic-games
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