A member of the Rio de Janeiro State Police Special Operations Batallion (BOPE) keeps the rear guard near a beauty salon in the Parada de Lucas favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 15, 2005. Police occupied the slum in search of eight young people who were kidnapped allegedy by traffickers from the slum. The kidnappings are the latest episode in a feud between two slums run by drug traffickers from rival drug gangs, which has been going on for more that 20 years. The young people are from neighboring Vigario Geral slum, run by rival drug traffickers and site of an infamous massacre in 1993 in which police killed 21 people. Shootouts marked by indiscriminate shooting between rival drug gangs and the police are common in Rio and innocent bystanders have fallen victim to the deadly gunfire and the homicide rate of Rio rivals that of declared war zones.(AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)

A member of the Rio de Janeiro State Police Special Operations Batallion (BOPE) keeps the rear guard near a beauty salon in the Parada de Lucas favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 15, 2005. Police occupied the slum in search of eight young people who were kidnapped allegedy by traffickers from the slum. The kidnappings are the latest episode in a feud between two slums run by drug traffickers from rival drug gangs, which has been going on for more that 20 years. The young people are from neighboring Vigario Geral slum, run by rival drug traffickers and site of an infamous massacre in 1993 in which police killed 21 people. Shootouts marked by indiscriminate shooting between rival drug gangs and the police are common in Rio and innocent bystanders have fallen victim to the deadly gunfire and the homicide rate of Rio rivals that of declared war zones.(AustralFoto/Douglas Engle)