Gangs are letting Sao Paulo know who's REALLY in charge

Brazil

this is a blatant effort to derail the efforts of governments who try to recapture their cities and their citizens from organized crime...

Masked men attacked police stations, banks and bars with machineguns. Gangs set almost 50 buses on fire. And inmates at dozens of prisons took guards hostage in an unprecedented four-day wave of violence around South America’s largest city and elsewhere in southern Brazil. The death toll had passed the mark of 80 by yesterday.

Twenty-one new killings were reported on Sunday night and Monday morning, the state government of Sao Paulo said, putting the death toll at 81 in the spree set off by a gang’s fury at prison transfers: 39 police officers and prison guards, 38 suspected gang members and four civilians caught in 181 attacks since Friday.

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The violence was triggered by an attempt to isolate PCC leaders, who control many of Sao Paulo’s teeming, notoriously corrupt prisons, by transferring eight of them last week to a high-security facility in a remote part of Sao Paulo state. Gang leaders reportedly used cell phones to order the attacks.

Georgia

although it was restricted to inside prison walls, a related riot took place in tblisi, georgia, in late march...

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