Rio de Janeiro, 1997: the hurly-burly of a seething open-air ‘baile’ (‘ball’). Sinewy slum soldiers tote loaded AKs at shoulder-height while female buttocks bounce low to the bass-boom of ‘funk carioca’ – Rio’s speaker-rumbling ghetto soundtrack. The rasp of gunfire suddenly intrudes. Bodies scatter as once-dancing limbs are shredded in the crossfire between cops and gangs. Just another night out in Rio...
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