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Less than three months from the opening of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, the group of slums of the Complexo do Alemão – neighboring one of the main roads used in the event, Linha Amarela – is far from being a pacified area, despite its four UPP stations (Pacifying Police Unit).
More than R$ 700 million (US$ 195 million) has been invested over the last decade. Politicians, NGOs and Hollywood celebrities have visited the slum to commemorate the occupation of the area by military troops in 2010.
Residents are obliged to live amid frequent gun fights and the curfew imposed by drug lords of the Comando Vermelho criminal group. In May, seven people were injured by gunshots and two were killed: a local resident and a police officer.
A survey by the NGO Voz das Comunidades, which began in the Complexão do Alemão, shows that eight deaths have been registered in the region since the beginning of the year - seven local residents and one police officer. Twenty others were injured: 13 residents and seven military officers.
The Comando Vermelho drug dealers, who had been driven out of the region during the occupation, have resumed their drug trade in local slums and now take advantage of the financial crisis faced by Rio de Janeiro state and its Department of Security to increase confrontation.

He lijkt er de laatste tijd op dat zo vlak voor de OS nog een drugsoorlog wordt uitgevochten.
Diverse bendes rekenen af. Zowel in als buiten de gecontroleerde wijken. Ook in Zona Sul is het onrustig. Diana wordt er wekelijks mee geconfronteerd. Niet alleen door de schietpartijen maar met name door de onrust in de wijk en dus ook de kinderen. Die zijn nerveus en nauwelijks bij de les te houden.