World: Brazil

Brazil’s police ‘execute thousands’ Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil, a BBC investigation has found. The authorities say it is mainly criminals caught in military-style raids on drug gangs but according to a former senior official, new evidence suggests that many of the shootings are cold-blooded executions conducted by the police. Source: BBC News (online), November 23, 2005 Brazil Starts Fingerprinting U.S. Travelers Brazilian police on Thursday began fingerprinting and photographing U.S. visitors on orders of a judge who compared planned U.S. security controls on travelers from Brazil and other nations to Nazi horrors. Source: MyWay (online), January 1, 2004