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Brazilian law enforcement agencies celebrated victory on Monday after an anti-drug raid on a sprawling Rio de Janiero slum, but a state official warned that only "a battle was won, but not the war".
With Rio's World Cup and Olympic hosting duties looming, some 2,600 paratroopers, marines and elite police backed up by helicopters and armored personnel carriers led a pre-dawn assault on Sunday on the traffickers' bastion of Grota, a lawless city with a population of 400,000.
Grota is just one of 15 favelas that make up the Complexo do Alemao, a sprawling maze of slums in northern Rio. And there was no mention of the arrests of hundreds of traffickers claimed to be the target of the operations.
However, police said they seized 40 tons of marijuana, packaged for delivery, from several houses in Grota. Police formed a long human chain, snaking down narrow, steep streets, passing the drug along to awaiting trucks in a main street below.
Another 200 kg of cocaine were also seized in the area, media reports said.
"This conquest is a decisive step forward for our public safety policy," Rio state Governor Sergio Cabral told TV Globo. "Today, we are turning a page in Rio's history."
Yet despite shouts of victory and the soaring rhetoric of senior officials, it remains to be seen whether the city, which is preparing to host the 2016 Olympics and matches in the 2014 soccer World Cup, has indeed been made safer.
Questions:
1. What Brazilian city did the raids take place in?
2. How many paratroopers were involved?
3. What year will the city host the Olympics?
Answers:
1. Rio de Janeiro.
2. 2,600.
3. 2016.
（中国日报网英语点津 Helen 编辑）
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Lee Hannon is Chief Editor at China Daily with 15-years experience in print and broadcast journalism. Born in England, Lee has traveled extensively around the world as a journalist including four years as a senior editor in Los Angeles. He now lives in Beijing and is happy to move to China and join the China Daily team.
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