RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL \u2013 The state of Rio de Janeiro will receive support from Brazil\u2019s National Security Force and Federal Highway Police to help local authorities fight the wave of violence seen in the state in last few weeks, according to Rio\u2019s governor, Luiz Fernando Pez\u00e3o.<\/p>\n
Pez\u00e3o was in Brasilia on Wednesday (May 3rd) to ask Brazil\u2019s President Michel Temer for federal help in dealing with the violence in his state.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know of the limitations of the federal government, but the Rio government alone, especially due to our financial crisis, cannot make the entire state secure. Alone we cannot fight the entry of weapons (into the state),\u201d said Pez\u00e3o in a press release on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
According to the governor, Brazil\u2019s Justice Minister, Osmar Serraglio promised that a hundred men from the National Force and a contingent still to be defined by the federal highway police will be sent to reinforce security in the state. Currently 125 men of the National Force are in action in the state.<\/p>\n
Serraglio told journalists that President Temer expressed concern about the recent violence<\/a>in Rio de Janeiro. \u201cThe President has asked us to start strategically designing a deeper and more effective action,\u201d added the minister. This is the second time this year, President Temer authorizes federal help<\/a> for Rio.<\/p>\n Officials also said President Michel Temer has appointed Brazil\u2019s National Public Security Secretary, General Santos Cruz, to travel to Rio de Janeiro and assess the situation closely.<\/p>\n The decision of sending in federal security forces was made after several buses were burned by drug gangs on Tuesday<\/a>, as well as reports of clashes between drug gangs and police in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that drug trafficking in Rio has always been very strong, very heavy. We have financial difficulties: at this moment I can not hire more police,\u201d said Pez\u00e3o.<\/p>\n Adding, \u201cI need to hire 4,000 policemen. We lose about 1,800 policemen a year, between dead and those who are discharged. That\u2019s why I need the help of the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL \u2013 The state of Rio de Janeiro will receive support from Brazil\u2019s National Security Force and Federal Highway Police to help local authorities fight the wave of violence seen in the state in last few weeks, according to Rio\u2019s governor, Luiz Fernando Pez\u00e3o. Pez\u00e3o was in Brasilia on Wednesday (May 3rd) to ask Brazil\u2019s President Michel… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}