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make sweeps

Spanish translation: redadas

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English term or phrase:	make sweeps
Spanish translation:	redadas
Entered by:	Lydia De Jorge

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18:32 May 11, 2011

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English term or phrase: make sweeps

Sixty percent of those surveyed served for five years or more.'8 This contrasts most sharply with the Chilean case where typically, the state security forces would make sweeps through poor districts (poblaciones) in and around Santiago, making mass arrests for intimidation purposes only.

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