Civil war??

I always got myself in some trouble when explaining about violence in Brazil when I has in Japan. Either to Japanese or foreigners, only those who live a similar reality, like Argentineans, seemed to really understand the whole picture.

It's a fact that each country has it's problems, but how I'm gonna explain this:

(Both articles from "The Washington Post")
Drug Gangs Bring Chaos To Streets Of Sao Paulo
Police Strike Back in Sao Paulo

And one site from "Folha Online" (in Portuguese)

The only thing I can say now is that it's not like the entire country was like that, and we were surprised by that, too... Things are likely to return to normality now...