BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) More than 20 would-be hackers gathered in the Brazilian electoral authority’s headquarters in the capital this week. Their mission: infiltrate the nation’s voting system ahead of a hotly anticipated race in October.
More than 20 would-be hackers gathered in the Brazilian electoral authority's headquarters in the capital last week. Their mission: infiltrate the nation's voting system ahead of a race in October.
May 8, 2021 Share
A bloody, hour-long gunbattle in a Rio de Janeiro slum echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses and a Supreme Court justice hinted at an investigation.
It was just after sunrise Thursday when dozens of officers from Rio de Janeiro state’s civil police stormed Jacarezinho, a favela in the city’s northern zone. They were targeting drug traffickers from one of Brazil’s most notorious criminal organizations, Comando Vermelho, and the bodies piled up quickly.
When the fighting stopped, there were 28 dead one police officer and 27 people described by the police as “criminals.” A day after the raid, Rio police had identified the 48-year-old officer who died, but none of the others killed in the operation.
David Biller And Marcelo Silva De Sousa
A woman holds a sign that reads in Portuguese: The war on drugs is an excuse to kill black and poor people after a deadly police operation in the Jacarezinho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, May 7, 2021. A bloody, hours-long gunbattle here echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police mission killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) May 07, 2021 - 6:09 PM
RIO DE JANEIRO - A bloody, hour-long gunbattle in a Rio de Janeiro slum echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses and a Supreme Court justice hinted at an investigation.
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By Alba Santandreu
Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Mar 10 (efe-epa).- Brazilian former head of state Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that he is at peace and free of resentment after a Supreme Court justice threw out his corruption convictions earlier this week.
But he refused to comment on widespread speculation that he will seek the presidency once again next year.
“My head has no time to think about a candidacy in 2022,” Lula said calmly during a 90-minute press conference at the headquarters of the ABC Metalworkers’ Union in this southeastern city, where the 75-year-old icon of the Brazilian and Latin American left first rose to prominence as a labor leader.