In Rio de Janeiro, residents of the favelas of Penha and Alemão are reeling after Brazil’s deadliest police raid in decades left more than 130 people dead. The operation, aimed at leaders of the Red Command gang, turned the neighborhoods into a war zone. Governor Cláudio Castro defended the raid as a “hard blow against crime,” but human rights groups call it a massacre — and residents say it shows how little has changed in Rio’s security policy. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports.
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