Friday, May 15, 2009

The arrest of drug traffickers provoked riots in Sao Paulo.

Living in the Brazilian slums of Sao Paulo city blocked the highway and burned a minibus, bus and truck, the Associated Press.
Thus, they expressed their protest against the police, arrested on Wednesday a group of young people suspected of drug trafficking, argues Radio CBN.
During the riots, which lasted about one and a half hours, the bus passengers were injured and two police dispersed the protesters.
Riots have become familiar to the largest city of Brazil and South America. The reason for the statements of slum dwellers more likely to be arrested criminal authorities the city.
Pick criminals clashes with the police reached the city in 2006, then in the fighting killed more than two hundred people.

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