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International

El Salvador cada vez más inseguro

Agosto pasó a la historia como uno de los más negros para El Salvador desde la guerra civil que concluyó en 1992. El saldo de ese mes fue: 911 asesinatos en 31 días

Strategic Papers

Where is Latin America?

This Strategic Paper studies the contradiction between high levels of violence in Latin America and the low priority given to achieve Susteinable Development Objective 16.

Digital Security in the Media

Brazil’s Cybercrime Problem

Foreign Affairs – Brazil ranks second worldwide in online bank fraud and financial malware. Yet much of the Brazilian public remains unaware of the scale of the problem.

Brazilian

Rio’s Favelas Feel The Peace — And The Pressure — Of Pacification

On a Saturday morning, in a group of Rio de Janeiro’s notoriously violent shanty towns, or favelas, heavily armed pacification police stand on one side of the street, on the other side, protestors call for them to withdraw.

On the protest side, Mayse Freitas lists the people she knows who have been injured or killed in shootouts in the area recently.

“I’m a mother and a grandmother,” Freitas says. “I don’t want my children or grandchildren to be next.”

International

Fra diplomatisk dverg til humanitær stormakt?

Brasil har siden 2004 ledet FNs stabiliseringsstyrke på Haiti, og aldri tidligere har Sør-Amerikas største land sendt flere soldater ut på internasjonale oppdrag. Brasilianske toppdiplomater har de siste årene fått lederjobbene i viktige internasjonale organer som FAO og WTO. Tidligere president Luiz Inácio Lula da

Brazilian

Violence, Football Hooliganism and Fragmented Justice System

SK Football – The game of football holds a larger than life status in the country of Brazil. The prevalence of the sport in Brazilian culture is so ubiquitous that there is probably not a single stretch of land left in the country where a ball has not been rolled

Op-eds

Gangsta’s Paradise: How Brazil’s Criminals (and Police) Use Social Media

Americas Quarterly – Rio de Janeiro’s most wanted drug trafficker, Playboy, died in a hail of police gunfire at his girlfriend’s apartment this month. Photographs of his bullet-riddled body began circulating on the Internet within minutes of his demise. So did an audio recording suggesting that he “left the scene alive, but arrived to the hospital dead.” His assassination is yet another pixel in Brazil´s relentless war on drugs.

Brazilian

STF começa nesta quinta a decidir sobre descriminalização do porte de drogas

O Globo – Pode haver uma quantidade de droga que diferencie o usuário do traficante? Países como Colômbia, Holanda e México têm diversos limites tolerados por lei para o porte de maconha, por exemplo. Esta poderá ser uma das questões em discussão no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) a partir de hoje, durante o julgamento que definirá se portar drogas para consumo pessoal no Brasil continuará sendo crime

Brazilian

Nós podemos reduzir os índices de homicídios pela metade

Ao redor do mundo, os homicídios parecem ter diminuído onde os governos implantaram uma boa governança e um efetivo Estado de direito, freando a corrupção de seus representantes, adquirindo controle sobre os mercados de segurança privada, e aumentando sua legitimidade por meio de instituições inclusivas

International

Ten steps to building a smart city

As urban areas swell around the world, leaders are seeking better ways to accommodate citizens. Experts offer advice

Brazilian

Como reduzir os homicídios no mundo?

Manuel Eisner, da Universidade de Cambridge: analisando o passado e com as medidas certas, é possível reduzir os homicídios no mundo pela metade

International

Brazil police may be to blame for 35 execution-style killings over weekend

Detectives in Manaus are investigating whether police death squads or criminal gangs were involved in a rash of execution-style killings that left 35 people dead in just three days. As the authorities flooded the streets with officers to reassure a nervous public, city officials were

Brazilian

Brazil’s Gun Violence Problem Is ‘Made in Brazil’

Rio de Janeiro´s famously laid-back residents are in a state of panic. A string of high profile knifings in well-heeled areas of the city are putting Cariocas on edge. The recent stabbing of a doctor inspired the drafting of new legislation to control knives. Though

Op-eds

Cop cams go global

Thanks to the technology revolution, policing in Brazil and around the world is changing

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