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         Take away Fio-DentalBy Tom Phillips in Goiania.
  Give a gangster a cigaretteJuly 23, 2009
If a drug trafficker asks you for a cigarette you give him one. Which is exactly what I tried to do earlier this week. I'd just had lunch in a stunning roof-top restaurant in the Vidigal favela in south…
Dancing at the Festival do…July 23, 2009
Just over a year after we started shooting 'Dancing with the Devil', a documentary about the lives of three men on the frontline of Rio's drug conflict, the film is going to get its Brazilian premiere in September.
Dancing with the DevilJune 6, 2009
In early 2007 I came across Pastor Dione dos Santos, a charismatic evangelical preacher who tries to save Rio's gangsters from a life of crime with his Bible. After writing about Dione's work in the slums of west Rio…
Scenes from GoianiaAugust 6, 2008
Covering the appalling murder of British teenager Cara Burke in Brazil's midwest has not made it an easy week. But the sunsets that descend on the city each night were at least some distraction. This is the view from my…
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This week I'm in Goiania, a small city in Brazil's midwest covering the murder of British teenager Cara Burke. Goiania is known for its cattle industry and the city's steak houses are packed to the rafters with chewy beef. So much so that lots of the restaurants here offer a take-away service in fio dental - or dental floss, available at the counter as you pay.
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