It wasn't the welcome those arriving at Rio de Janeiro's main airport would have hoped for - police holding up banners that read "Welcome to Hell". The demonstration today - a month before the Olympics open- was the latest by Brazilian police protesting over unpaid salaries and a string of recent police deaths
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