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Onlookers watch scantily clad teenagers parade along a makeshift stage for the 2007 edition of 'Miss Sao Felix' in the Amazonian frontier town of Sao Felix do Xingu, Para state, Brazil. Statistically it is one of Brazil's most dangerous postcodes, a place where the chances of being murdered are three times higher than in the Colombian capital Bogota. In a recent nationwide survey of murder-rates, Sao Felix came in just behind Rio de Janeiro, one of South America's most murderous cities, and significantly ahead of Sao Paulo, with an average murder rate of 54.1 per 100,000 citizens between 2002 and 2004.(Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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Onlookers watch scantily clad teenagers parade along a makeshift stage for the 2007 edition of 'Miss Sao Felix' in the Amazonian frontier town of Sao Felix do Xingu, Para state, Brazil. Statistically it is one of Brazil's most dangerous postcodes, a place where the chances of being murdered are three times higher than in the Colombian capital Bogota. In a recent nationwide survey of murder-rates, Sao Felix came in just behind Rio de Janeiro, one of South America's most murderous cities, and significantly ahead of Sao Paulo, with an average murder rate of 54.1 per 100,000 citizens between 2002 and 2004.(Douglas Engle/Australfoto)

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