Essay by Eric Worrall
Sure hope no COP30 attendees were planing to fly in via Rio de Janeiro.
FAVELA WAR
‘Bodies strewn across streets’ after huge police operation in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas as 2,500 cops storm gang’s HQ
The raid targeted the Red Command gang in Alemão and Penha favelas, resulting in widespread gun battles and disruption
Juliana Cruz Lima , Foreign News Reporter
Published: 00:48, 29 Oct 2025AT least 64 people were killed and 81 arrested as 2,500 heavily armed police and soldiers stormed Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the city’s largest-ever anti-gang operation.
Gun battles raged for hours on Tuesday across the Alemão and Penha complexes, the strongholds of the powerful Red Command (Comando Vermelho) gang.
The conflict has left “bodies strewn all over the streets,” according to a community leader quoted by O Globo.
Governor Cláudio Castro said the city was “at war,” calling it “the biggest operation in the history of Rio de Janeiro.”
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Read more: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37154516/rio-de-janeiro-favelas-operation-gang-comando-vermelho/
The narco terrorists who are fighting government forces appear to be using advanced weapons, such as Ukraine conflict style first person drones.
Tousi TV’s video is available here.
Another video from Times of India corroborating the scene at the top of this article :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UWNkTpxkD8
Rio De Janeiro is around 1300 miles from Belém, the city which is hosting COP30 in just over a week. Nevertheless with open gun battles in the streets of Rio, the Comando Vermelho narco terrorists might see COP30 as a golden opportunity to grab some high value hostages to leverage Rio de Janeiro authorities into backing down, or to force the release of arrested gang leaders.
Comando Vermelho have a long track record of hijacking and kidnapping for ransom, in addition to being significant regional narco traffickers.
Between the risk of attack from powerful narco terrorist kidnappers, deadly street battles in one of Brazil’s premier cities, an accommodation crisis and a local risk of Typhoid fever, and a large contingent of wealthy celebrities who are keen to show they care, who knows, this could end up being the most interesting COP yet.
The solution could be as simple as …
When they demand someone’s release, release them to a public firing squad.
Eventually they’ll stop asking.
As soon as you make something illegal it will create a new distribution system most of the time a lot more violent because it has to fight the mafia we call the State.
As Creedance Clearwater Revival so eloquently put it…
“Take you a glass of water
Make it against the law
See how good the water taste
When you can’t have any more”
Just cancel COP 30. It is a waste of money anyway. It achieves nothing scientific and only debates issues that they say are settled, but cannot be in practice. As most people know we are fed more untruths about climate than almost any other issue.
You just wonder who are the baddies in this story.
Trump, it’s always Trump.
Brazil should spend less time hosting dead-end climate conferences like the COPs, which have an unbroken record of 30 years of failures, and focus on getting its crime rates under control. Apparently, when it comes to per-capita homicides and a variety of criminal activities, the country is among the world leaders. Mind you, if it wants to provide entertainment for quasi-criminals, it won’t have to look far beyond a climate conference, especially one of the COPs since the attendees in many cases have picked taxpayers’ pockets in convincing their respective governments to send them to meetings that accomplish nothing.
Won’t happen.
Brazil is already the dream the democrats have tried and failed to establish in the USA during the recent Blinken presidency.
They are not interesting in fixing problems.
The Brazilian left successfully faked their very own Jan6 event.
They not only persecuted the political opposition but successfully put them into prison.
They have massive censorship.
They successfully stole the election
and the presidents incompetent son is operating way above his level – Hunterstyle.
And the criminal population,especially blacks are benefit from soft on crime.
The court has recently recognized mental illn…Non-Binarism? in documents.
Vaccination are mandatory now.
On top of that – the lun..Lulatic president went yesterday full pervert leftie Orwellian relativism by saying,
that ” (drug)Dealers are victim of addicts “.
The only remaining difference between US democrats and the Brazilian left is that there sre no claims. claims that Lula is taking showers with his daughter.
Send in the IPCC as a UN peace force. I mean right in the middle of the fight.
The workers of the IPCC would never ever leave super safe Bern. In winter every weekend is party time in St. Moritz.
Brazil not on my list of places to visit. In fact, one of my employers required those visiting deep into Brazil to have security escorts – not permitted to travel alone.
Where will the private jets land for COP30? Where will international commercial flights enter the country for COP30?
Indeed. If they are real VIPs, they will have sufficient security anyway. And if not, that would be no great loss, just more opportunity to wring hands. Plus some “resyotch” on how Climate Climatening causes otherwise inexplicable crime waves, or whatever.
Every time I visited Rio or Soa Paulo, my company required that I use armored car and have security escort.
I thought the US Navy and Coast Guard were pretty violent, but I guess the Brazilian police are, too.
Why do you have a problem with the State using justified and proportional violence against armed criminals?
At least you’re consistent. Consistent in supporting Narco Terrorists.
COP30: Attend, if you dare. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?
End up as a walking sandbag or a hostage nobody never ever wants to see being released maybe? sarc
Realistically? Well, they may be taken as hostages, not even for ransom, but as meat-shields. Even if not, it’s a reasonable bet that at least one of the interested parties (directly involved or not) may think a little provocation at this point is in their interests. And in those terrains hitting some civilian grade transport with an IED or rocket would be much easier than live capture.
I lived in Rio 1981-83. It was pretty wild then.
Our glorious eco worrier Prince William will be giving his Earthshot prizes in Rio prior to COP30.
Incidentally, population of Brazil was about 120 million when I was there, now about 240.
They should send for Paddington bear…
I wish I thought of that, I would have asked ChatGPT to draw Paddington Bear in a war zone 🙂
A typhoid out break sure would be interesting. I wonder how many of the rich ans shameless have had there shots?
The smart ones will have a big pack of Dexamethasone as a Malaria prophylactic. Dexamethasone is apparently also effective against Typhoid, unless you are unlucky enough to be infected by a really antibiotic resistant strain.
Eric:
The CDC does not recommend dexamethasone [actually it’s contraindicated meaning it might make things worse since it impairs your immune system]. cdc.gov/travel
Copilot:query result 10-29-25: [Gemini is similar]
“CDC Guidance for Malaria Prevention in Belém, Brazil (2025)
• Malaria risk exists in parts of Brazil, including areas near Belém in the northern region. The CDC advises travelers to check specific regional risk maps and consult the Yellow Book for tailored recommendations.
• Recommended prophylactic drugs for Brazil include:
• Atovaquone-proguanil (Malarone) – daily, well-tolerated, good for short trips.
• Doxycycline – daily, also protects against other infections like leptospirosis; not for children under 8 or pregnant women.
• Mefloquine – weekly, suitable for long trips; contraindicated in people with psychiatric or seizure disorders.
• Primaquine or Tafenoquine – effective against P. vivax, but require G6PD testing beforehand.” [end Copilot]
As to Typhoid: dexamethasone has utility in severe casess of typhoid fever.but not for prophylaxis. Vaccination is the best prophylactic medical treatment. Since TF is food or water borne disease: “Boil it, cook it, Peel it, or Forget it”.
What the Belem participants really need is to be inoculated against the propaganda they will be immersed in. Say, read the DOE’s Climate Report, or multiple doses of WUWT ?
LOL
Ah my bad, I misremembered – Doxycycline was what I took last time I went into a Malaria area.
I’ve been on Doxy once, for Lime Disease.
I’ve refused it every time since. I could set my watch by my extreme mood swings. Doxy penetrates the blood-brain barrier.
The cure for Liberalism is Liberal doses of WUWT…WHO knew (but wouldn’t say)
So what, no more relaxing walks for the COP30 attendees at the Copa Cabana after stressfully wasting the taxpayers money, ehm I mean fraudulently pretending to save the planet…?…something like that sarc.
They’ll have to settle for the COP Cabana
😅 good one 👍👍😁
Sure hope no COP30 attendees were planing to fly in via Rio de Janeiro. ‘Planing’?
Humorous typos R US.
But who is doing more damage to the poor? Comando Vermelho or the IPCC? . How many death will IPCC policies cost? So who is the more evil of the two?
I believe both are below the threshold where a winner can be identified.
‘Sure hope no COP30 attendees were planing to fly in via Rio de Janeiro.’
Well, speaking as a Briton, I rather disagree (esp if Starmer and Millibrain attend)!
It could be interesting.
Then again, it could be another opportunity for St. Greta to should, “HOW DARE YOU.”
Not at the terrorists, but at the government and law enforcement.
Is this really all that different from London, Los Angeles, etc?
Minor nit. These were drug gangs. Different focus.
You left out Portland.
Brazil should be excluded from COP30 due to excessive CO2 emissions (due to the riots and burnings).
Just let the drug gangs kidnap all the COP idiots and preening celebrities that are attending to virtue signal.
Then when they issue ransom demands, tell the narco gangs to keep them.
The world is much better off without them.
Maybe they could get St. Greta to form a massive flotilla to deliver them to Hamas.
I wonder if Israel would allow Hamas to have 30,000 narco hostages?
I can envision Hamas making demands based on the 30K and Israel wetting their collective pants laughing hysterically.