{"id":7725,"date":"2014-04-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2014-04-24T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T06:00:00","slug":"violence-spills-out-of-rio-slum-near-future-olympic-venues-just-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/24\/violence-spills-out-of-rio-slum-near-future-olympic-venues-just-ahead-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence spills out of Rio slum near future Olympic venues, just ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7873\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_1307569281.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7873\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_1307569281.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_1307569281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_1307569281-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Shutterstock photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil &#8211; Residents of a Rio de Janeiro slum are revolting over the death of a young man they blame on police.<\/p>\n<p>The violence Tuesday night shut main streets and took place one block from Copacabana beach, where Olympic events will be held in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Residents showered glass bottles and homemade explosives down a busy road in Copacabana. About 200 protesters closed another main avenue as they fought with police.<\/p>\n<p>Intense exchanges of rifle fire were heard from inside the slum. There was no word on injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The unrest in one of Rio&#8217;s so-called &#8220;pacified&#8221; slums comes just weeks before Rio will see an influx of tourists for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Drug gangs who were pushed from Rio slums have been striking back at police with brazen attacks on their outposts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil &#8211; Residents of a Rio de Janeiro slum are revolting over the death of a young &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[684,455,278,691],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-brazil","tag-lt","tag-rio","tag-violence","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}