Ahead of FIFA World Cup, Brazil scrub drug vendors

Brazil, Nov 26: Following the increase number of drug trafficking, Brazil government decided to knockdown the drug vendors in the country.
Brazil, decided to clean the city within the time before hosting FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016,
Rio de Janerio, which is a slum in Shantytown city, found to be one of the most powerful and most dangerous place, where trafficking gangs are based.

The offencive part of police to control the crime in Rio's drug driven slum, known as Favelas.

More than 1700, police officers have taken possitioned and encircled all suspected places and till know atleast 30 suspected drug traffickers have been belt down, since the operation began on Sunday Nov 21.
"The armed drug gang members have been seen fleeing the Vila Cruzeiro slum(a neighbour slum)", a police official informed reporters.
The escaped offenders, attacked police station in northern Rio on Nov 21. Then the violence broke out in the city . Atleast 180 people have been detained, weapons and drugs have been seized from them. Since the violation began atleast 60 vechicals including nearly a dozen buses have been set a blaze.

Brazil's World Cup heroes swap football for politics

(CNN) -- When one of Brazil's newly-elected congressmen rose to give their victory address, his speech was delivered with all the confidence of a political pro.

"The 150,000 people who believed in me can rest assured that I will become a great politician," he told Brazil's Globo TV network.

But the man elected as a federal deputy in Rio de Janeiro was anything but the stereotypical statesman. It was, in fact, Romario, one of Brazil's most feted and controversial footballing legends who helped his nation win the 1994 World Cup.