2012年2月8日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Brazil

Brazilian troops tighten security at police strike (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 01:53 PM PST

Protestors stand in front of soldiers maintaining a blockade around the Bahian state legislature building, where up to 300 striking police officers and their families are holed up, in Salvador, Brazil, Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012. Crime reportedly jumped when one-third of the 30,000 police in Bahia walked off the job Jan. 31. Though violence has tapered off a bit since more than 3,400 soldiers and federal police were sent in to patrol Salvador on Sunday. The striking police officers are demanding pay raises and amnesty for what a judge ruled an illegal work stoppage. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Troops tightened the security ring around a Brazilian state legislature building Wednesday, seeking to step up pressure on the hundreds of striking police barricaded inside as the city's Carnival festivities approach.

Haitians bound for Brazil languish in Peru's Amazon (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 08:42 AM PST

Reuters - Nearly 300 Haitians fleeing the poverty of their earthquake-ravaged homeland have been stuck for a month in the Peruvian Amazon, where a gate to what they saw as a better life in Brazil has abruptly closed.

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