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  • Between Christ and the Caveirão

    Mac Margolis | Jul 26, 2007 01:43 PM
    Since the quadrennial games began here on July 13 (they end July 29), Rio has become one of the most closely guarded cities on the planet. A bomb squad and an anti-kidnapping unit are on alert. National guardsmen with body armor and sniffer dogs are everywhere. Two dozen aircraft patrol the city’s airspace day and night. And if the going gets rough, the authorities can always roll out that other storied icon of Carioca life: the caveirão, the armored car that police favor when raiding the bandit hillsides.   More
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