SOME stared blankly down at the soil; others angled their furious gazes towards the sky. Sergeant Ricardo, a hulk-likespecialforces soldier clad in a pitch-black uniform, clasped his face in his hands and wept.
In the slums of the city, special forces soldiers fight a dangerous daily battle against armed drug gangs. By Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
SOME stared blankly down at the soil; others angled their furious gazes towards the sky. Sergeant Ricardo, a hulk-likespecialforces soldier clad in a pitch-black uniform, clasped his face in his hands and wept.