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February 22, 2018

Brazil: President Temer Deploys Military to Police Rio de Janeiro
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Brazil's Senate has lent its support to President Michel Temer's decree
ordering the military to take control of security in Rio de Janeiro amid
a spike in violent crime in Brazil's second-largest city. Heavily armed
soldiers in armored vehicles are now patrolling Rio's impoverished
favelas. The military's deployment follows a wave of violence carried
out by Brazil's police, who killed over 4,200 people across the country
in 2016, with nearly 1,000 of those killings in Rio de Janeiro alone.


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