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A four-day spree of violence in Brazil’s financial capital has killed more than 80 people, including 39 law enforcement officers … Authorities called the attacks an unprecedented assault against public security in Latin America’s largest nation. Sao Paulo’s chief public prosecutor, Janice Ascari, labeled them the first terrorist attacks on Brazilian soil … Bloody jail uprisings are common in Brazil, but the current spate of violence looks more like a guerrilla offensive with multiple fronts in a war between the state and a powerful prison-based gang. The weekend death toll in Sao Paulo exceeded that in Baghdad.

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