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Election campaign highlights power of militias in Rio de Janeiro

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Rio de Janeiro, Nov 12 (EFE), (Camera: Janaína Quinet).- The growing dominance of militias here in Brazil's second city is casting a shadow over campaigning as voters in more than 5,500 cities and towns across Brazil prepare to go to the polls Sunday to elect mayors and councilors.The militias, largely made up of active-duty and former cops and soldiers, originated during the 1964-1985 military regime, but carved out a new role for themselves in the 1990s as "security providers" in the poorest favelas (shantytowns) of Rio de Janeiro.Some residents saw the militias as needed to counter the drug-trafficking gangs that embedded themselves in the favelas, while others bristled at the depredations of the "protectors," who typically establish monopolies over the provision of basic services and use that control to jack-up prices and rates.FOOTAGE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL.

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