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Rio de Janeiro Takes Tough Measures to Expel Drug Gangs

   Jeff Swicord | Rio de Janeiro 10 November 2010
   A  Baile  Funk,  a dance party, is underway in The City of God, one of
   Rio's most violent neighborhoods

Photo: VOA-J. Swicord

   A  Baile  Funk,  a dance party, is underway in The City of God, one of
   Rio's most violent neighborhoods

   Rio  de  Janeiro's  hillside favelas, or poor neighborhoods, have been