Yahoo! News: Brazil

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• Federal troops and police prepare Rio slum offensive (Reuters)
• Amid violent flareup in Rio, Brazil defends its security strategy (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Rio braces for more violence in drug crackdown (AFP)
• Korea group to bid for Brazil train as delay seen (Reuters)
• Rio police, backed by military, surround gang turf (AP)

Federal troops and police prepare Rio slum offensive (Reuters) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 04:38 PM PST Reuters - Backed by armored personnel carriers and 800 soldiers, police prepared a major offensive on Friday to occupy one of Rio de Janeiro's largest slums where heavily armed drug traffickers bunkered up after days of violence.

Amid violent flareup in Rio, Brazil defends its security strategy (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:07 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - With more than two dozen killed in a week across Rio de Janeiro in gang-related violence, reporters pressed the visibly weary Rio State Security Secretary José Mariano Beltrame on the efficacy of an aggressive two-year-old security program: Are criminals being effectively vanquished or just changing their addresses?

Rio braces for more violence in drug crackdown (AFP) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 12:34 PM PST AFP - Residents of Rio's slums braced for more violence Friday as hundreds of soldiers and police joined a widening crackdown on drug gangs that has killed at least 31 people in six days.

Korea group to bid for Brazil train as delay seen (Reuters) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 11:28 AM PST Reuters - A group of 22 companies led by South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries plans to bid for the right to build and operate a high-speed rail link in Brazil, even as the government might delay the process.

Rio police, backed by military, surround gang turf (AP) Posted: 26 Nov 2010 05:31 AM PST AP - Police searched homes and secured the perimeter of a Rio de Janeiro shantytown Friday that has long been a stronghold for drug gangs and a symbol of the their ability to rule vast areas of the seaside city with impunity.

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