Chapter 18 Slums
It was already midnight when Liao Fei and Roland flew to Rio de Janeiro, and it was time for people to carnival at midnight, Liao Fei didn't know where Rongchang would be at this time, so he had to find a place to rest first, and wait until he received the news before acting. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Using a Japanese nurse, the two stayed at the Santa Theresa Hotel in Fort Reless, a five-star hotel in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, close to the Heritage Park and Ganle Park.
According to intelligence, this guy Rongchang lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro every night, while during the day he hangs out in the best restaurants and bars. This five-star hotel is also one of the places he frequents.
According to Director Kang's plan, Roland only needs to eat in the restaurant here, and he happens to meet Rongchang, a pervert. After he accosted him, the two entered the room, and then Roland killed him and left generously. Liao Fei didn't want to use this plan, who knows if Rong Chang is powerful or not, Roland is alone in the room with him, don't kill the people when the time comes, Roland is trapped, then it's over!
The two of them used Japanese guards to stay here and only opened one room. Liao Fei tried to contact the local intelligence officers through the Internet to see where the guy Rongchang was. It turned out to be depressing, there were not many intelligence officers in Brazil, let alone Rio de Janeiro! When Liao Fei was on the plane, the intelligence officers who secretly monitored Rongchang were discovered by him again, and as a result, he was chased and killed by the local underworld.
This intelligence officer is not only the last intelligence officer in Rio de Janeiro, but also the last in Brazil. Rong Chang, a bastard, basically sent all my country's intelligence officers in Brazil to the morgue or hospital, which fully shows his cunning and vigilant heart.
The only thing that made Liao Fei fortunate was that the intelligence officer had already prepared the weapon and put it in a safe house, although he was injured and hospitalized, Director Kang knew the location of the safe house, and they could get the weapons instead of looking for the local gangsters to buy weapons. In that case, it is likely that they will buy weapons, and Rongchang has already received the news.
Rio de Janeiro is not very safe at night, and locals are generally reluctant to go out at night because it is too dangerous.
Rio de Janeiro is beautiful, but the golden beaches can't hide the violence and poverty. The city has a population of 6 million, 2 million of whom are spread across thousands of poor communities. These places are so chaotic that even the police are reluctant to set foot in them. Due to the lack of governance, slums and the outside world are like two worlds, with different laws, economic systems and self-contained social norms. Many slums have long been dominated by gangs, and drug trafficking and homicides are commonplace, which makes homicides in Rio de Janeiro remain high. In Mexico, which suffers from drug trafficking, the chance of a murder is 14 in 100,000; And here, the odds are twice as high.
Slums have long been "urban islands", and to a certain extent, slum gangs play the role of "government", controlling basic services such as water, electricity and gas, and claiming to provide "protection" to residents. Every time the police and military police carry out a governance operation in the slums, it is more like fighting the enemy on "foreign land".
In 2010, the Brazilian government sent heavily armed police to engage drug traffickers in the Vilacruzeiro slum on the outskirts of the city, sending armoured vehicles equipped with large-caliber machine guns. Escorted by helicopters, a large number of snipers and heavily armed soldiers marched into the slums. Some 17,500 police and soldiers have joined the operation. Although Brazilian police regularly exchanged fire with bandits in the slums, they had never used military armoured vehicles in previous battles.
The drug dealers erected barricades beforehand, but they could not stop the armored vehicles.
The incident was triggered by a police attempt to root out drug trafficking in more than a dozen slums. The drug trafficker in prison instructed his men to carry out an attack, and the gangsters attacked the Rio de Janeiro police station, burned the vehicle, and completely started the fight against drug dealers by the Brazilian police.
Dozens of people were killed and drug traffickers burned more than 60 vehicles, including 12 buses, during a week of fighting. The streets at the scene were messy and messy, like a war zone. The inhabitants of the slums are afraid to come out of their homes. Many people fled the slums with luggage and automatic rifles.
Liao Fei still remembers the feeling when he received the information that civilians in the slums were running around with automatic rifles, and it would be strange if there were no problems with the security environment here. Even in the United States, no one dares to walk on the street with a rifle on their backs!
Brazil's road to slum governance is always the same drama: heavily armed military police rush into slums and fight drug dealers hiding inside. The drug dealers were defeated and fled. Then the army quickly withdrew from the ghetto. The gangs are back, and the slums are once again in the hands of the gangs. Even now, the government has changed its strategy and has deployed people in the area to build public facilities such as community centers, especially permanent police stations. However, the slums are still chaotic, because some local police officers have also colluded with the gangs, turning a blind eye and hoping to make some money from the gangs.
Many police officers will pretend to fight the gangsters while counting the arms smuggling money sent by the gangs.
Rongchang usually stays in the slums of the "City of God" at night. This is the most famous slum in Rio de Janeiro, and even in Brazil, the most dangerous place in Rio de Janeiro. There are 213,000 people living here. Rongchang is mixed in it, like a drop of water entering the sea, and it can't be found at all. And it is not a familiar face entering the slums, and those who are here will stare at strangers with hostility in their eyes, and the gangsters scattered among them will blatantly carry guns and watch strangers, as if strangers will be killed immediately if they do something. Even most of the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro's slums are good citizens, working as bricklayers, servants, or postmen. However, a small number of drug dealers and gangsters control the entire slums, and coupled with the hatred of the rich among the poor, outsiders are still very repulsed.
The intelligence officer's safe house is not far from the hotel, not in any of the slums. This is also convenient for the work of intelligence officers, otherwise when intelligence officers go to the slums, they will be watched by a group of people, which is too low-key! The main thing is to put the safe house in the slum, because there is often no one in the safe house for a long time, it is very likely that when the people go there, they will find that everything in the safe house has been stolen and not even a single hair can be found.
Liao Fei and Roland had a good rest in the hotel, and at noon the next day, Liao Fei and Roland immediately rushed to the safe house.
The safe house is in a residential area next to the flamengo football club, next to the porcao kebab shop, directly opposite Monte Cristo and the inner lake. It's an upscale neighborhood with great security, and it's a whole world away from a slum. Liao Fei and Luo Lan came to the gate of the community and did not enter immediately, but directly entered the porcao barbecue restaurant.
Porcao is one of Rio de Janeiro's two most famous and long-established Brazilian rotisserie, this 109-year-old restaurant next to Flamengo Football Club has a nondescript red door, and inside, a row of photo walls are hung with photos of celebrities from all over the world. Whenever there is a football match, photos of Neymar, Ronaldo, Kaka, Romario, Messi and others are placed in the most prominent position.
The business of this store is very hot, many people are already waiting in line, Liao Fei and Luo Lan stood inside the door, pretending to wait for the position, but actually observing the door of the community.
After observation, Liao Fei found that a car parked at the entrance of the community was very suspicious, there were two foreigners in the car, they seemed to be waiting for someone, but Liao Fei observed them for twenty minutes, they were still there, and they were always staring at the entrance of the community. Distinctly not like an ordinary tourist. Ordinary people who will stare at the door, even if it is waiting for someone, ordinary people will do something else, or watch the scenery, and the madman will keep staring at the door!
Liao Fei guessed that the other party should be from the CIA, because it is impossible for the Brazilian intelligence agency, that is, the people of ABIN, to send conspicuous foreigners to monitor here. It seems that the intelligence officer was not unjustly injured, he was not discovered by Rongchang, but by the CIA, and even the safe house was found and became no longer safe.
The CIA people must want to find out who will come here by monitoring the safe house, as long as the people who enter the safe house must be intelligence officers, they can prevent or assassinate them in a targeted manner, to ensure that there will be no problems with their transaction with Rongchang.
Roland leaned to Liao Fei's side and asked, "Do you want to kill them?" ”
"No, just distract them, there's no need to make a fuss."
Liao Fei didn't want to use this simple and crude way to claim that someone was going to kill Rongchang and declare war with the CIA.
The CIA people parked in an illegal location, and the police didn't come to do anything, and they would definitely be chased away. Liao Fei stepped aside and called the police to say that someone was dealing in drugs on the edge of Monte Cristo and the inner lake, diagonally across from the porcao barbecue restaurant.
The police can't manage the slums, and the management of the city is not outrageous, especially when it comes to drugs. It is important to know that drugs are generally traded in slums and rarely elsewhere. Whether it is a good police officer or a police officer who has collected black money, they will crack down on this drug trade. Needless to say, the reason for being a good cop is that if the black police crack down on drugs because if it is not the drugs sold by the gangsters who pay them, it is equivalent to letting the gangsters sell less! The less drugs are sold, the less black money is collected, so the black police will crack down on this kind of thing even more.
Not long after, five police cars pulled up next to the CIA's car, and a large crowd of police officers jumped out of the car with guns in hand and surrounded the car.
"Get out of the car, get out of the car." The police shouted.
The people in the CIA are stupid, how the police surrounded us! Could it be that someone from the Brazilian Intelligence Service found out who we were and wanted to arrest us? The CIA men felt their guns and considered whether to pull them out and confront the police. The relationship between the United States and Brazil is not close, it is a relationship that is neither very good nor tearing face. Keep somebody at arm's length. So the people in the CIA are not sure exactly what the Brazilians are going to do.