Sunday, March 6, 2011

The police is chic

The police? Furiously trend in Rio de Janeiro. The uniforms of the security forces are approaching a cardboard carnival. It pulls the replica outfits of UPP, the units responsible for pacifying the favelas torn to drug traffickers. Police pacification takes control of the territory by moving to the slums after the assault troops of elite military police, the BOPE.

These battalions are not deemed incorruptible details. Their methods are often condemned by associations defending human rights. Still: the uniform, struck a skull, also a success. The film Tropa de Elite 2n'est no stranger to this craze. This blockbuster was seen by more than 10 million Brazilians.

To date, says O Globo, twenty favelas have been pacified.

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