"Paramilitary Games"

http://www.jstor.org/view/0094582x/di013101/01p0089w/0

This is a report published by the NACLA Report on the Americas investigating the emergence of paramilitary groups, or milicia, in the last decade. These groups have offered a "'third way between the state and the drug traffickers'" and have been supported by governing bodies of Rio, many of the favela dwellers, and the upper class. However, the report offers evidence of violence exhibited by the milicias, not unlike the violence caused by the gangs themselves. It ties this investigation into the economic stimulation that the Pan American Games provided in the greater Rio area.