"Yet another Favela off the Dutra Freeway, Sao Paulo, Brazil." -- photo by M.S. Vassiliou, from "The World's Beautiful Places", CalTech.

So-Called Liberty, Justice and Peace, per the PCC, in São Paulo

Brazil with a Z

[26 September 2006]

by Naitze Teng

The PCC has generated an urban war to fight for better conditions for their members in prison -- and the people of São Paulo live imprisoned within their city.

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