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A large-scale narcotics operation against the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, crime syndicate in Rio de Janeiro led to 56 arrests, 18 dead suspects and two dead police officers, the state government said on Tuesday.
“We stand firm confronting narcoterrorism,” Governor Claudio Castro wrote on social media as he announced the operation.
He said that 2,500 security personnel were deployed across the impoverished and densely populated Alemao and Penha favela complexes on the outskirts of the Brazilian city, near the international airport.
