Sao Paulo’s ‘Crackland’ Reflects Brazil’s Rising Role in Drug Trade

Brazil, once a minor player in drug trafficking, now ranks among the world’s top sources of cocaine and the main transshipment point of narcotics to Europe. And in Sao Paulo, South America’s largest city, the illegal drug trade has turned entire neighborhoods into wastelands. For VOA News, Sao Paulo correspondent Edgar Maciel visited one of those neighborhoods.