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In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard

In this photo taken June 28, 2011, packets of cocaine are shown to the press after being seized by police during an anti-drug operation in the area Bonsucesso of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. About two decades after the United States emerged from the worst crack epidemic of its own, the Brazilian authorities look cheap drug distributed in their country. In Rio, the crack-related arrests jumped from 546 in 2009 to 2597 in 2010, according to the research arm of the Department of Public Security of Rio.Photo: Silvia Izquierdo / AP In this photo taken July 27, 2011, people smoke as they sit in an area known as "Crackland" in the center of Sao Paulo, Brazil. About two decades after the United States emerged from the worst crack epidemic of its own, the Brazilian authorities look cheap drug distributed in their country. In Sao Paulo, in Brazil the first place to have a consumer market for the start of drug in the 1990s, entering the police of the crack increased from 595 kilos in 2006 to 1,636 kilos in 2009, according to the Federal Police.In Rio, the crack-related arrests jumped from 546 in 2009 to 2597 in 2010, according to the research arm of the Department of Public Security of Rio. Photo: Andre Penner / AP In this photo taken June 27, 2011, people walk along a street in an area known as "Crackland" in the center of Sao Paulo, Brazil. About two decades after the United States emerged from the worst crack epidemic of its own, the Brazilian authorities look cheap drug distributed in their country.In Sao Paulo, in Brazil the first place to have a consumer market for the start of drug in the 1990s, entering the police of the crack increased from 595 kilos in 2006 to 1,636 kilos in 2009, according to the Federal Police. Photo: Andre Penner / AP In this photo taken June 28, 2011, a young one is after police took him to social workers providing medication Bonsucesso in the neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Two decades after the United States

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