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Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7577-7
Publication date:
2015
This chapter relates the experiences of Bruno, a young Brazilian man who joins the navy and is posted to the border with Bolivia. While he is there, he becomes involved with the trafficking of cocaine to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which are increasingly under the control of a criminal faction known as the Comando Vermelho. The chapter also involves a discussion of the border region in general.
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