‘Welcome to hell': Violence rocks Rio a month before Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO — A month before Rio de Janeiro hosts South America’s first Olympic Games, two cellphone videos have brought home the grim reality of rising violence in the city's teeming favelas — the poor communities that are home to almost a quarter of its population. In one clip, small children cower in fear in a […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/05/welcome-to-hell-violence-rocks-rio-a-month-before-olympics/