Guns, Rio, Violence

Back in the Correspondent Game again, and this time it's close to war correspondent exciting. Doing a piece about guns and violence in Brazil and specifically Rio. It's a war in all but name. On one side the armed drug trafficking gangs of the favelas. On the other, the police. About 1200 get killed every year, by police. About 300 police die. And then there's the bystanders. In the course of investigating, it was necessary to interview one of the drug chieftains. Here's what that interview lookied like. Later I'll add some photos of police and innocent bystanders. Hoping to sell this all to the CBC.