Brazil arrests 34 in Cracolandia operation
By Reuters
22 May 2017 |
7:15 am
Brazilian police moving into Cracolandia before dawn, and through open area tents that serve as spaces for vendors of drugs as police move through, police rounding up and arresting.
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