Kindly note this article was published April 17, 2007. The deaths at Virginia Tech occurred on April 16, 2007. What level of insensitivity rules in the Brazilian press and it's affiliates globally?
Brazil pays for inequality with violence (clickl link above or below on separate entry)
RECIFE: A stone's throw from a pristine beach where foreign tourists sip caipirinhas, relatives wait at a morgue to recover the bodies of nearly two dozen people, the aftermath of a typical weekend of violence in the port city of Recife.
With around 80 homicides a year for every 100,000 people – twice as many as the worst cities in the United States – Recife, in northeastern Brazil, is the bloodiest city in a country that is going through a particularly bloody period.
...In Recife, underpaid and corrupt police officers cause as much violence as they repress, experts say.
"Policemen do bank robberies and kidnappings, either they take a cut or do it themselves," said a former police officer, who asked to remain anonymous. "When someone doesn't pay, they take him out."
Police and crime are so entwined that authorities often couldn't tackle crime if they wanted to.
"Before sending the troops on a mission, I have to check who is on my side," said Romero Lucena de Menezes, security secretary of Pernambuco, the state that includes Recife.
