Last weekend, central urban areas of Rio de Janeiro were once again a theater for war among drug gangs fighting to take each other’s control of drug fiefdoms. The police intervened and the battle became a tripartite one: gangs fighting each other and the police fighting both.

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President Hugo Chávez, of Venezuela, signs a law that imposes absolute censorship of opinion through the media, shuts down several radio and TV stations. All the independent media is under imminent risk of takeover.

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