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02 May 2013
BRASIL / IMAGES : Police Challenge Criminals In Salvador, Bahia.
This newsblog's editor once lived in Salvador, Bahia.
The memories are all good...as memories tend to be.
But...that was long ago.
This Reuters foto essay shows the often violent side of the NE's biggest city today...that will be a host city for the World Cup in 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2318403/The-drug-gangs-violence-Brazilian-city-expecting-hundreds-thousands-football-fans-years-World-Cup.html
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