RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (Reuters) Last year, as Rio de Janeiro residents holed up in their homes during the deadliest phase of Brazil's Covid 19 outbreak, police detective Gabriel Ferrando says he received a tip that the local Internet service had been compromised by something suspicious.
Vast areas of Morro da Formiga, a poor neighborhood in the north of the city, were no longer accessible. When Ferrando questioned a technician from broadband provider TIM, who was tasked with fixing the outage, the employee, whose name he declined to give, said armed men chased him away with a warning not . . .
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