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| By Alerts - 12-27-2012, 10:34 AM - Boxden > BX Daily Bugle - news and headlines SAO PAULO, Brazil — Glassy-eyed, rail-thin and filthy, hundreds of addicts emerged from doorways and alleys as dusk came to the once-grand Luz district in the heart of this city. After quick transactions with crack dealers, they scrambled for a little privacy to light up their pipes and inhale tiny, highly addictive rocks that go for about $5 each. The image was reminiscent of Washington or New York in the 1980s, when crack cocaine engulfed whole neighborhoods and sparked a dizzying cycle of violence. But this time, the crack epidemic is happening in Brazil, alarming officials and tarnishing the country’s carefully cultivated image ahead of two major sporting events to be staged here: soccer’s 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In cities all over Brazil — from this gritty metropolis to the crown jewel of Rio de Janeiro and smaller places in the middle of the Amazonian jungle — nightfall brings out swarms of desperate addicts looking for their next fix in districts known as “cracolandias,” or cracklands. And like the crack wave that slammed the United States, the result here is the same — lives destroyed, families upended, neighborhoods made uninhabitable. “Crack is an incurable illness,” said Paulino, 50, a wiry, fast- talking addict who wouldn’t give his last name as he explained his daily appetite for the drug. “I need crack in my blood. My sickness is like a serpent. What’s the medicine for a serpent?” With an estimated 1 million cocaine users, Brazil is being whipsawed by a problem that some leaders here once thought of as solely an American one. The trend carries worrisome ramifications for the country, whose population of 200 million includes a booming, new middle class, offering a promising market for traffickers, drug-control experts say. Brazilian cities hit by crack epidemic - The Washington Post |
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| 12-27-2012, 11:13 AM | away - #2 |
| It's bloodshed, feel the cracks of my city streets I'm from the crack of them city streets Used to sell crack in them city streets | |
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| 12-27-2012, 03:40 PM | away - #3 |
| Black GENOCIDE. it's sad that we watched it here in the 80s and now we're watching the same epidemic tear across another largely Black population. | |
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| 12-27-2012, 03:49 PM | away - #4 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 03:56 PM | away - #5 |
| theres always been a drug problem in brazil in the same way that, there was one in the the usa, started way back in the 70's city of god. | |
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| 12-27-2012, 03:57 PM | away - #6 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 04:19 PM | away - #7 |
| Well we all seen this movie, hopefully the Brazilian government handles it better than the U.S; but its funny how some populations of people in almost all countries gets the short end of the stick when it comes to education and opportunities, this is not a coincidence seems like thats the way certain groups at the top want it. | |
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| 12-27-2012, 04:26 PM | away - #8 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 04:41 PM | away - #9 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 04:51 PM | away - #10 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 05:11 PM | away - #11 | |
they are already predicting that Africa finna blow up economically, within the next 40 years [pic] if Whites could spend 1000 years, in filth, ignorance and disease war and then turn around and takeover the world in 300 years, the sky is the limit for anybody | ||
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| 12-27-2012, 06:07 PM | away - #12 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 06:14 PM | away - #13 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 06:22 PM | away - #14 | |
maybe they can control their own !! | ||
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| 12-27-2012, 06:59 PM | away - #15 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 07:13 PM | away - #16 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 10:07 PM | online - #17 | |
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| 12-27-2012, 10:13 PM | online - #18 | |
Have you forgotten history? Dont chu know all the Pharaos and Co. who were ruling 1000s of years ago were black? Did they need any type of[..]istance or influence when they were ruling? No, so stfu! | ||
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| 12-27-2012, 10:26 PM | online - #19 |
| looks like i'm hittin up the world cup [pic] | |
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| 12-27-2012, 11:11 PM | away - #20 | |
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