Brazilians Look to Regional Force to Root Out Death Squads
Brazilians Look to Regional Force to Root Out Death Squads
By Monte Reel
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 18, 2008; Page A09
RECIFE, Brazil -- The name was on the tip of Rosario Lapa's tongue, but it stubbornly stayed there. She tapped her forehead to try to shake it loose, then turned to her friends for help.
"What do they call the death squad here?"
...
The Thundercats were one of the first targeted last year, and the break in that case came when a mother's concern for her son proved stronger than the group's stranglehold on a hushed-up public.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702492.html?wpisrc=newsletter
By Monte Reel
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, March 18, 2008; Page A09
RECIFE, Brazil -- The name was on the tip of Rosario Lapa's tongue, but it stubbornly stayed there. She tapped her forehead to try to shake it loose, then turned to her friends for help.
"What do they call the death squad here?"
...
The Thundercats were one of the first targeted last year, and the break in that case came when a mother's concern for her son proved stronger than the group's stranglehold on a hushed-up public.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702492.html?wpisrc=newsletter
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