Public opinion is sharply polarized regarding the police operation in Brazil that led to 132 deaths. While many applaud the police for their aggressive stance against drug gangs, viewing such actions as crucial for restoring safety, significant concerns are raised about human rights violations, excessive force, and the high civilian death toll. There is also frustration aimed at the government's overall effectiveness in addressing crime, with some labeling these operations as political performances rather than genuine efforts to curb narcotraffic.

Brazilian Police

Government of Brazil

Drug Trafficking Organizations

"Over 64 dead in a massive police raid."

**Shows a burning city**

Hm. I think you guys might be doing something a little different.

ThereIsNoResponse

We got Max Payne 3 in real life before GTA 6

KonamiRapedMetalGear

The situation in Rio is much closer to the kind of narco civil war you see in Mexico than anything you would find in the US.  There are large areas of the city that have been fully under the control of the gangs for years and the confrontations between the gangs and government forces are often full blown urban warfare, both are fully militarized and the gangs are well equipped enough that they’ve shot down helicopters.

Fattybitchtits

Bilbo_McKitteh

This is what Trump thinks Portland looks like.

Grooviemann1

OverSmell1796

ProvenLoser

A 'raid', huh? That's what we're gonna call it?

JustYerAverage

onepingonlypleashe

HelpMeFindMyBrain

Took me a second to realize this is an event where they went after one of the gangs that basically runs the Right Wing of Brazil. It's a tough challenge for sure. This is horrifying

MemeWindu

People need to stop looking at skin tone, start looking at who has the most to lose.

https://preview.redd.it/fd5xfzbu5xxf1.jpeg?width=850&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=93a371f708f8dbb1a4245cab773cf1b696eeaf71

We need a conscious humanity.

SlimGAMPOSlanderly

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gothamtg

So the stuff they showed in that Elite Squad movie (the first movie) is real?

CraigS34

Alternative-Chef-340

The narcos were using drones with explosives against the police. Mexican Cartels have been stockpiling thousands of weaponized drones as well. Absolutely insane times.

tortorials

Death toll already reached 130 and will possibly climb. By far the deadliest police raid in the state, probably in the country

LukeD1992

https://i.redd.it/piajpdedcyxf1.gif

Brazillian police be like:

AmierSingle

Coming soon to an American street near you

SookHe

aaronrandango2

Not AI, but the sad reality. The guy who's filming is probably far away, at a different morro/favela, from where he can see without being part of it

darksideofthesoul

Im asuming the fire is from the coockroachers burning the evidence and deads would be from the police deleting them from existance

ImFatandUseless

just a little context, out of the 64 deaths mentioned in this post, 60 of them were criminals, 4 were police. 

if the info I received is correct, the number of **criminals** deaths should be above 100 now and it keeps going up, as it should. they have been running free for too long.

RasiSan

Brazil has always been like this: a country based on imperialism, violence and the oppression of the most vulnerable.

Short-Historian7063

nocturnalfrolic

Former-Government-51

I feel like this is more than just a police raid

TheGambit

MechaBuster

aethelworn

How long before Trump or one of his lackeys posts this video and claims it's Chicago or Portland?

catbox_archeologist

MagicStar77

Geez, looks like a scene from :Blackhawk down".

SongFeisty8759

The Brazilian account of the events: https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/noticia/2025/10/28/complexos-do-alemao-e-da-penha-sao-alvos-de-megaoperacao-acao-tem-dois-mortos-e-homem-em-situacao-de-rua-baleado.ghtml

apresmoiputas

firestar268

There's a lot of drug crimes, extortion and kidnapping there! My friend goes there with his wife and she's from there and they would stay in a lot because he is white and he'd be targeted!

wechy2035

60 Narcoterrorists and unfortunately 4 pollice Officers

tonytunado

When does a Police Raid become Military Action?

Asking for a friend.

Mr_Mason42

I don't know how many PCC and CV faction members died in this shitshow but it wasn't nearly enough. 

May this operation be the first of many, I'm tired of so much crime.

Komrade_Yuri

Murderbot_420

wheres the public running? this headline sucks

TPain518

naarwhal

This wouldn’t surprises me if it  isn’t Wagner group working with Trump and whatever fucked up agenda he has with South America.

Raven-Mark

Police out there making everything better as always I see

albamarx

yaya2593

'This is Brazil'

'And this is Brazil after the attack'

Queef-Elizabeth

This reminded me of the end of The Invitation

Danzelboob

In other words, just another country’s way of procuring land from the poor. You know, to make expensive high rises near a beach. 😎

Astoriadrummer

INFJcatqueen

Consent-Forms

Need more context, not many people know about situation in Brazil. I just thought it AI

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As per local police sources, this was less of a raid and more of an outright military operation. They had military police officers providing overwatch from the nearby highways and the special operations battalions (BOPE for PM and whatever the fuck the civil police one is called) infiltrated the nearby woods and waited in ambush.

Civil police and riot battalion (batalhão de choque) surrounded the main target and when the narcos tried to exfiltrate through the woods they ran head first into the ambush (where 4 cops also got killed).

By the looks of it, the number might rise to 200+ as they're still retrieving the bodies from the woods.

Also, this article doesn't mention that in retaliation the CV (red command) seized dozens of busses to jam traffic city wide and set some on fire.

ImaLichBitch

Absolutely insane death count for a police operation.

Didn’t lawmakers in Rio approve bonuses for kills about a month ago?

I mean fuck narcotraffickers but how much you wanna bet this only went after the lowest in the chain, the poorest most desperate people.

This seems like more of a massacre than a legit police operation.

macroswitch

Ok-Seaworthiness4488

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Crazy, I was just in Rio for a couple days last week and couldn’t have felt safer. Granted, I mainly stayed in Copacabana other than visiting the Redeemer.

Dkjq58

And the stubbornness, lack of critical thinking, the hive mentality, and the hypocrisy will really shine.

Steve120988

I feel like Brazil has 100 different police and military branches

ChillaximusTheGreat

Ecko (Wellington da Silva Braga), head of the former Militia faction "Liga da Justiça" (Justice League), was killed during the Operation of the Special Resources Coordination (CORE), a special force of the Civil Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Ecko terrorized Rio de Janeiro with his guerrilla tactics. Its faction, the Bonde do Ecko, dominates much of the West Zone and regions of the Baixada Fluminense. Paramilitaries under his leadership extort money from residents and merchants and explore various activities. Ecko was shot by CORE Operators around 8 am while visiting his wife and children at the Três Pontes Community, in Paciencia, in the West Zone of Rio. He arrived lifeless at the Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital, with two shots to the heart. .

According to investigations by the Organized Criminal Actions Reprimand (DRACO), the militia had an alliance with traffickers from the TCP (Third Commando Puro) faction, which recruited ex-traffickers into its gang and allowed the community to trade in narcotics, and so they shared the profits from sales.

The operation, dubbed Valentine's Day, is part of the Task Force to Combat Militias, created in October 2020, with the objective of strangling the financial arm of criminal organizations.

Governor Cláudio Castro (PL), on social networks, congratulated the team: “Today is an important day. We dealt a heavy blow to the state's criminal factions. Congratulations, Civil Police, for the surgical and secret operation that captured Ecko, the most wanted militiaman in Brazil”, he wrote.

startpolice

colewinkle

I see m4’s A2’s a fal a couple sa58’s and an AK. All with mixed optics and kit.

Chief__04

Congratulations on a job well done boys!!

kaegic

Interesting, some of them seem equipped with civilian US market AR15. There’s at least one gun that seems to have a 16" barrel and a pic posted a few days ago showed an operators equipped with an AR15 showing no third pin for a full auto sear.

MlackBesa

Fun fact: an [Internet search in Brazil for "Ecko"](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ecko&amp;ko=-1&amp;ia=web&amp;iai=r1-3&amp;page=1&amp;sexp=%7B%22biaexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22msvrtexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22mliexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22soslexp%22%3A%22a%22%7D) returns more than the clothing brand: headlines such as "Ecko organized orgies with prostitutes from other States" and such.

Mickets

“You follow the drugs and you will end up with drug dealers and drug addicts, but you start to follow the money, you don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna take you” Lester Freamon, The Wire

Benjiboy74

I'm not against raids, but they need a consistent program to be effective. They need to retake and maintain control over the area.

It probably won't happen. Most likely, it's just for show, and crime would reoccupy that zone in no time.

DEvil2791

I'm not from rio, but as a Brazilian in my perspective this kind of operation is more about showing off than actually combating the crime. There are movies about that, like "Tropa de Elite" and "Cidade de Deus" (this one also has a series that is the continuation from the movie) that might help you understand what happens.

This might have an impact, but without other politics, it just generates more violence, recently we had one of the biggest operations in history against organized crime called "Carbono Oculto", which translates for hidden carbon, it tracked the money until Faria Lima, that is like Brazil's Wall Street, this say more than we need to know. Organized crime without money laundry doesn't exist, and to get your hands on things like imported guns, you really have to be in places where people have influence, that obviously are the same places where people have money. 

If Brazil really wants to improve security, they need to invest more in investigation and less in raids, but this is less likely to happen because the origin of the evil are people that will not allow themselves to be taken down.

Lugui367

Frist of all those are the numbers the police released now it will definally increse for police, drug dealers and civilians later. And yes there isn't a chance only police and dealers were killed by it.

How do I know civilians got roped up into it? Because this happens since the fucking 60's and everything only got WORST since then.

Second this was the deadlyst shit storm to ever happen to Rio. The governer, who is found to be associate with the Rio militias, conduct the operation WITHOUT any federal support. Not because he wasn't offer any he was and he FUCKING DENY IT. It was planing and logist desaster of homeric proportions.

These kinds of massacre do reduce crime for a bit but after a few months it's all back in the same.

One of the reason that the police can't get the locals from those places to cooperate with them is because they are so distrustfull of the police in the frist place BECAUSE THEY ARE SO VIOLENT. Why tf would trust the police when your kid got shot for playing with a Nerf gun and murderer got AWAY WITH IT, the 8 year old was to treatning to them.

Thiphra

it's a show off.  
A lot of the killed people probably were just people that were in the wrong place, but will be identified as criminals.

All the loses from the organized crime side were the small fry, the big guys are living confortably in luxury neighborhoods. There will be a small period of reorganization as they have to recompose the small fry ranks and soon the business will come back as usual.

Even if they achieve the goal of disorganizing the CV by killing a lot of them (and the inocent people caught in the crossfire), the power vacuum will be filled by some other criminal organization as there is no plan to bring public infraestructure to the place.

And it is not impossible that the politicians are being paid by some other crinimal organization to clear some territory so they can dominate.

  
For all purposes this event was a disaster.

FrozenHuE

I bet my right leg that a considerable number of those who were killed were innocent hard working people caught in the shooting.

Impressive_Acadia_29

Rio de Janeiro is a narco state, unfortunately. It doesn't have any public power and is dominated by organized crime (CV or militia). I think this is a good move from the authorities but it's mostly just for show... 14 years ago there was a similar operation and the benefits of it are questionable: https://youtu.be/ysBgvJtVQZI?si=jyBDPAqEExi7m2k3

Edit: I'm not from Rio.

FuhrerThB

Hope everyone stays safe, that's always a tense situation

BlastarBanshee

OP, we have THOUSANDS of stories of children being murdered due those police raids in favelas. Please take care with words like "I think it was a good thing". We are talking about little children, some playing inside home or in front of their houses or streets close. Many of them are victims for being caugh in the crossfire. 

These operations always lead to more violence and more control in the core of the organization. The core are not in only in the favelas. And by the way, the biggest organization, PCC were formed after the Carandiru massacre. It was created as a response to what happened. 

There were reports about people who surrendered themselves being killed by shots or knifes. The police can't do that. It's against human rights (and I believe it's also ilegal, in paper at least, in rules of police work). And we don't know if the people who surrended were criminals or innocent people. If a police man point a gun to you and order you to stop, you do. Some of them can kill because you were there, doing your things, with 0 involvement with drug trafficking. 

Frequently, innocent people die in these operations or are shot and may suffer lasting consequences or be unable to work for months. 

I think you had others here giving you good responses. Please open your eyes to understand that a few bloody actions in favelas are not having the intention to fight against drugs or the organized crime. It's like a theater play, but the victims are real and the director and producer are sadists laughing at the tragedy while the audience is traumatized and covered in blood too.

MissCherryCake

As someone who grew up dodging bullets on my way to school like I was in the f*cking Matrix, good riddance.
Nobody gives two shits about innocents the rest of the year when they get shot in the head for *checks notes* not letting go their cellphones and wallets fast enough, now everybody and their dogs suddenly want to raise awareness to the fact that innocents are caught up in war, cue the violins.

CraftMost6663

Ok, so, we have a lot of operations along the year. Some of them are leaded by Federal Police and they get to big stuff, like closing guns factories and getting to important people, this one was ordered by the governor and were mostly Civil Police and Militar Police. 64 people are dead - maybe it'll increase in the next hours -, and they only apprehended 93* rifles? That's nothing. It's like killing a bunch of pawns and letting the boss flee because of lack of efficiency. And also that's the most lethal operation in Rio history.

USUALLY police operations starts in the dawn, end at the morning and everything's fine with some policemen reinforcement during the day. This one started at the morning and retaliation lasted for hours, we had shootings at fucking 8 PM, it's far from normal. The factions ordered the important highways to be closed by using buses - almost 100 were used - or trash as barricades, and sum this up with police interdictions along the day. It was bad, the city paralyzed and shit was going to hit the fan.

People were released from work earlier and they needed...buses, to get home. The same buses companies were afraid to let them circulate because they might be used as barricades and be set ablaze. The other means of transport were overwhelmed with the extra demand at 3-4 PM, tons of fake news spread along the day, it was utter chaos.

Edit: Almost forgot to add, next year there'll be elections and the governor wanna show some work.

*Number updated

ExoticPuppet

Are you With the traffickers?go there and Take them home With you....
Now the People that these guys killed no one EVER TALKS about right?

fingerman2024

They'd have to do this once a week for a year to, just maybe, sort this out. Good to see, though.

Salt-Specialist6505

Well, it's just killing soldiers. There will come new. To have serious effects on this they need to close production and catch generals which is impossible most likely

dwaraz

Eu moro no Rio e a situação aqui é triste em algumas localidades, falam em chacina mas chacina é o que acontece todo dia no Rio, quando o trabalhador morre voltando pra casa, refém do crime que esses mesmos que morreram ajudaram a espalhar.

No Rio, não passa um dia sem a notícia de uma vida inocente sendo ceifada por causa do crime, um dias desses os cara assaltaram uma idosa e pegaram a cabeça dela e bateram com toda força no chão e faleceu.
 
As vezes entendo o pessoal comemorar isso, mas o Cláudio Castro é um péssimo governador, só faz esses coisas no fim de mandato, o cara foi um inútil e fez essa operação sem nenhum preparo.

Essa operação não irá diminuir e não irá mudar nada a situação do Rio, mas deixá-los vivos e soltos também não, essa é minha opinião.

Weizmer

Eu torcendo pra que façam no Brasil todo 🙌

egg_221

I'm watching this video: [RIO DE JANEIRO EM GUERRA!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgfYCnmbpCw)

I'm not from Rio, but it seems that the region has laws, taxes, and the right of citizens to come and go controlled by narco-terrorism. In other words, Rio de Janeiro and Brazil have no control over the well-being of the citizens there.

Now, whether it was right or wrong, I can't say, it's a real tragedy. How can you stop narco-terrorists armed with drones and rifles who have an alternative state within your country?

leoMaou

Thing is, “Facções” (the brazilian mafia) have grown so powerful and organized that this kind of action rings more like “political statement” than actually solving the problem, because there is no dismantling of the actual organization, just a show of force. Its way more complicated than a raid, and a lot of people died in this one - for not solving anything. An example of an operation that actually had an impact was operation “Carbono Oculto”, made some time ago that had way more impact and no bullets involved.

dave_aust

I'm not from Rio, but from Brazil: some specialists say that this was a stupid raid, done with very poor planning and with a huge number of collateral damage. As far as we can see, the apprehensions were minimal and a lot of innocent people payed the price in the event. But that's what I could muster from media, I don't really know what actually happened, but by the pictures there's certainly a literal war going on.

Mysterious_Put_2593

Dev_De_Saco_Cheio

The death count surpassed 100 apparently. 64 was what the Governor reported. I fail to see how killing so many people is a success. Detained, trialed and, if appropriate, imprisoned. Not killed. Naturally CV would fight back, i understand, but record killing in a police raid is not success.

Old-Recommendation13

The Right-Winger Governors in Brazil just stopped a National bill to combat organized crime with intelligence and monetary drainage of criminals.

Right-wing voters in Brazil LOVE violence and innocent bloodshed...

This is why the violence will never end in Brazil; it's a vicious cycle of crime, violence, politicians, and votes.

This carnage killed more than ten innocent people and four cops.

The death toll (120) surpasses that of the "Carandiru Massacre." It was a total disaster, and not a single mafia boss was caught, so organized crime will resume next month.

Dante-VS-Dalton

Just a quick note: you will find two distinct and opposite answers to this tied to ideology. Reddit is mostly a left leaning audience so the answers you see here are vastly different than answers you will see in other platforms.

queenx

So basically, there are three big criminal factions operating in Brazil and Rio.

- Comando Vermelho (CV) from Rio, 

- Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) from São Paulo, but that got disproportionately large and nos operates in most of the country, 

- and the Militias, groups formed by corrupt cops, military and former cops.

Yesterday's operation was done against a CV dominated favela.
To try to be succinct, I'll list my points.

- Three days ago, Lula, the brazilian president, committed a big verbal blunder saying - "Users are responsible for the traffickers, who are also victims of the users. You have an exchange of people who sell because there are people who buy, and of people who buy because there are people who sell." He meant to criticize what Trump is doing in the Caribbean, blowing up boats without proof that they are connected to drugs or anything, while the drug trafficking only exists because the usians buy the drugs. The opposition seized the moment hard in criticizing, publicizing what he said, saying that he supports drug trafficking, etc. The operation, three days after he says that is mostly a political stunt, to show who's supposed against drugs, that got out of control and that SIMPLY WOULDN'T HAPPEN without Trump's own stunts and Lula's blunder.

- We have to think about the real effects of this operation. That kind of confrontation has been happening in Rio for decades now, since the 70s. The problem doesn't seem to be solved. Will this one do it? Of course not. Because you won't solve this issue by killing footsoldiers. They were praising the apprehension of 95+/- rifles. That's not the biggest rifle apprehension in Rio's history. The biggest was 117 rifles seized without a single shot fired at the home of a neighbor and friend (there is proof of their relationship) of Jair Bolsonaro, inside the luxury condominium where they lived in a wealthy neighborhood in Rio.

- And then, here I'll try to be really succinct. The Bolsonaro family became connected to the militias during the 90s. Jair multiple times publicly defended them on the congress pulpit. There are a bunch of other evidence of that, from weird really quick buying and reselling of real estate by one son, connections with know militia members, etc, etc. PCC is not blind to that and is now investing in connections with other politicians from both the "Centrão", a large group of parliamentarians who are supposedly centrist but are always for sale, and from the Christian Far Right.

- Back to the real world consequences of yesterday. Wanna know the main one? That area is now under a vacuum of power that won't be filled by the State with schools, healthcare, public sanitation, reinforcement of citizenship to the inhabitants, etc. It'll be filled by the PCC. Basically, taxpayer's money was used so that the PCC could gain control of a geographical area in Rio. Was that by the design? I'd say that we should wait a couple years to find out, even though I have my bet.

- The other consequences are 4 dead policemen and 128 dead people that may or may not have been members of criminal narco-organizations, but we probably won't know because the due legal process and proper forensics investigation was exploded. Just as Trump is doing in the Caribbean. 🤷🏻

- All that said, I understand that the Rio situation is out of control, with large swaths of the city under control of institutions that are enemies of the Rule of Law and the retaking of those areas won't probably be done peacefully. But that was already tried around 2008, 2009. Huge areas were retaken by the state but that failed miserably because the only state apparatus that followed was more police instead of tools to include and enpower the inhabitants as full-fledged citizens. They only served ao that the militias could take over those areas, just the same as this stunt now will only enpower the PCC. Drug trafficking will never, in 10 thousand years, be ended with bullets, but only through a multidisciplinary approach that involves legalization so that the criminal institutions go broke, regulation of access and consumption so that the users don't use or use less and don't die from drug use, and by socio-economical and civical empowerment so that poor people don't have to resort to crime to survive. Everything else is just either political stunts, use of public money, and the lives of public servants to help criminal institutions gain power, or both.

Arihel

This is like Israel bombing Palestine to fight Hamas. It's ineffective and kills civilians. The real drug Lords have tunnels and different ways to remain hidden, and the big bosses aren't in the favelas, but in high rises by the beach. So what good does it make? You kill 40 drug dealers + some 24 innocent people, arrest 80 dealers, seize 2kg of weed, some guns and that's it. In a city of 12 million people.

Now Rio is completely divided between cartels that live in a semi-truce. The operation happened mostly in two neighborhoods. If the government decided to tackle every single hood, Rio would be over. But spoiler, they won't. The governor can have its origins traced to a cartel (milícia), so they're only really tackling one specific cartel (comando vermelho).

The entire operation is very shady and no one knows why it really happened. The only thing that we know is that now people in these communities are afraid for their lives and unable to go on about their lives. These people work regular jobs, have families, study, etc.

lhcmacedo2

Human rights groups will always condemn raids because they seem to think cops can just walk into a favela, arrest criminals and not get shot at by said criminals or have bombs dropped on them by UAVs.

With that being said, Rio is just doomed, corruption runs way too deep to be fixable at this point.

fullsets_

Human rights groups care more about bandits than their victims

AdorableDonkey

The proof that these operations don't work is that they've been happening for decades and crime continues to grow stronger.

Another thing, there's no need to feel sorry for the police. They are totally linked to organized crime. The police officer who goes up the hill to kill the criminals today is the same one who goes up the hill to collect bribes and sell rifles the next day.

crux84

If El Salvador listened to human rights groups, they would not have gone from the MOST DANGEOURS AND VIOLENT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD to the safest country in Latin America.

Sometimes bad people must die and I hope these continue until all these criminals are gone.

Adventurous_Back_383

Actions like these do very little to resolve anything. Firstly, it will be discovered that many of the people who were killed had nothing to do with gangs, as always. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And secondly, it will be discovered that most gang members who were killed or arrested were “foot soldiers” and the hierarchy of leadership remains largely intact. Those who were killed or arrested will be immediately replaced.

Headitchee

Left Brazil 26 years ago… nothing has changed 🥺

FindingNo1121

The real effective operation against organized crime was the one the federal police conducted at Faria Lima, striking the financial center of criminal operation. This is just for juvenile minds that think life is like action movies and shooting will solve anything. 

Oh, and the governor who authorized the operation has himself connections with the real big fish that run the criminal groups this attack targeted. It's just the soldiers from both sides that are going to get killed while the people in charge try to take advantage from the situation.

Baphome_trix

I'm not from Rio but i will give my opnion:

 specialists on TV say this type of operation will have no impact on crime, that the solution is ocupying the territory but nobody is saying the obvious: that the "territory" shoundn't exist in the first place... Slums shoundn't exist!

A good chunk of how bad and powerfull crime is in Brazil is because of urbanism, urban planing (the lack of it). Probably even the richiests neighborhoods in Brazil don't follow all construction regulations. The solution is leveling all this favelas and creating minimally (even the best places in Brazil probably don't reach this) housing for everybody. Just take a look at our sidewalks lol this can seem as an unimportant thing but it's prob the most important!

About the operation itself, by been Rio, you never know who is really right and who is the criminal. I don't trust anything that has anything to do with Rio de Janeiro state governement. Let's hope it was 60 criminals and no inocents...

Party_Papaya_2942

This is a performance for the elections. A bloody and terrible one but... 

These kind of actions will NEVER end the narcotraffic, it will kill just "soldiers" who are at the favelas while the big bosses have mansions and live somewhere else. These "drug soldiers" will be replaced in a few weeks, maybe even days

Gabamaro

I think the perspective on this depend on where in Rio you live. I live in Rio 3 months out of the year for the last 2 years but this affects me 0% because I'm in basically the nicest area possible.   
I know some people in Meier who were impacted due to traffic but that's it.

It would be great to hear from people who do not live in the south zone and are not gringos.

Years back in 2016 I tried getting involved in community education program to teach English and tutor with someone I knew who was running a program in Rio. Getting to and from the meeting point was the hardest part.

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