'Like a cancer:' Rio militias grow, control swaths of city

'Like a cancer:' Rio militias grow, control swaths of city https://ift.tt/wEcZxH latest scheme works like this: Brazilian paramilitary groups buy boxes of cigarettes in neighboring Paraguay for 14 cents a pack and then smuggle them back home, where prices and taxes are much higher, and sell them for up to $2.15.