This Monday, around 2,000 agents of the security forces of Brazil They occupied ten favelas in Rio de Janeiro, amid a struggle for territorial control between drug trafficking gangs and paramilitary groups known as ‘militias’.
The mega-operation took place in the western part of the city in order to regain control of several neighborhoods where organized crime has increased its activities in recent years, the Rio government announced in a statement.
Rio’s favelas in the hands of gangs
Three suspects have been arrested so far.according to the official preliminary assessment. “There is no place where the government will not enter. The security forces have done an excellent job of weakening the militias, but there is a war scenario in these areas, which we know is detrimental to the residents,” said the governor of Rio, Cláudio Castro, accompanying the start of the operation.
Castro, who supports a firm strategy once morest crime, reiterated that his government is committed to “restoring law and order.”
(With information from EFE)
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