Tag: Favelas

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 13:02 UTC

  Federal troops move into Rio favelas to secure access to Galeao airport

  

  Brazilian police backed by troops occupied a massive favela next to Rio de Janeiro's international airport without firing a shot to secure one of the city's most violent neighborhoods long run by drug dealers.

• Tuesday, March 25th 2014 - 08:59 UTC

  Brazil militarizes favelas in Rio do Janeiro to guarantee 'law and order'

  

  The Brazilian government announced on Monday, 80 days before the start of the 2014 World Cup, that the military will help occupy several “favelas,” or shantytowns, in Rio de Janeiro to guarantee security in an area currently controlled by violent drug trafficking outfits where some 100,000 people live.

• Sunday, March 23rd 2014 - 09:43 UTC

  Federal troops to Rio do Janeiro to try and contain attacks against the police

  

  The government in Brazil says it will send federal troops to Rio de Janeiro to help deal with a spate of violent attacks targeting the city's police. The decision came after the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Sergio Cabral, asked President Dilma Rousseff for government support ahead of the football World Cup in June.

• Friday, November 29th 2013 - 07:17 UTC

  Youth gangs raids in Rio beaches are back challenging police; US consulate alert

  

  A truck with fourteen cameras with a 360 degree angle and a range of eight kilometers plus a fourfold increase in police numbers has been displayed along Rio do Janeiro most iconic beaches following an outbreak of 'arrastraos' or dragnets in which tens of teenagers stampede on to beachgoers to steal whatever they can get hold off.

• Monday, October 7th 2013 - 17:37 UTC

  Brazilian police raid slum areas in Rio do Janeiro; claims of police brutality

  

  Brazilian police poured into a dozen slum areas of Rio de Janeiro over the weekend continuing a drive to pacify the poor neighborhoods despite accusations of police brutality that have called the tactic into question.

• Friday, July 19th 2013 - 06:29 UTC

  Pope Francis wants direct contact with the crowds when he visits Brazil next week

  

  Pope Francis will not use bullet-proof ‘Pope-mobiles’ on his visit to Brazil next week to allow him more direct contact with crowds despite the security risks, according to a Vatican release.

• Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:17 UTC

  Drug trafficker in Rio challenge authorities and the pacifying campaign in favelas

  

  Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums, defying efforts to restore order to the city's vast shantytowns and renewing safety concerns in Brazil as it prepares to host the World Cup and Olympics.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:55 UTC

  Brazilian special forces take control of Rio ‘favelas’ close to the airport and seaport

  

  Brazilian security forces seized control of two crime-ridden ‘favelas’ slums near Rio do Janeiro’s international airport and seaport Sunday in a new bid to drive out drug traffickers ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 summer Olympics.

• Monday, November 5th 2012 - 13:10 UTC

  Lawless Sao Paulo: 22 people killed over the weekend including the 90th cop

  

  Law and order seems out of control in Brazil’s largest city and financial hub. To the usual appalling crime statistics follows a rash of police officers killings. This weekend an off duty military police officer was the twenty second murder victim and the 90th killed in the city so far this year.

• Monday, September 10th 2012 - 01:39 UTC

  Rio police begins to use drones to control drugs and crime in the city’s shanty towns

  

  A battalion of Special Forces (BOPE) from the Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro started using unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones to air monitor the drugs trade and gangs in shanty towns surrounding the “marvellous city”.