Saturday, November 7, 2009

UTV News - Brazil crime wars: Spiderman's story of drugs and Jesus in Rio's slums

UTV News - Brazil crime wars: Spiderman's story of drugs and Jesus in Rio's slums:
The contact between evangelical preachers and Rio's gang members is spawning a new generation of evangelical traffickers – men who paint their communities with passages from the Bible and tattoo psalms on their bodies, but who fall silent when you ask them about the Fifth Commandment; men who burn their enemies in makeshift cemeteries or hack their bodies apart with axes, but who also plaster signs around their slums' playgrounds reading: 'Don't smoke marijuana here. If you insist on it, you will be 'charged'.'

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