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Brazil's government has set the favelas and middle classes against each other

A year of frustrated protest against an intransigent government has released a wave of pent-up inter-community violence

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'The attempt to raise bus fares has acted as a reminder that, since last year's protests, things have got worse, not better.' Photograph: Agencia Estado/Rex

In Brazil there is a saying: "A good thief is a dead thief." These words have never been more relevant in today's Brazilian class-ridden landscape, where prejudice, violence and racism run free.
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