Bolsonaro’s gun sale increase decrees raise insecurity and issue may reach Supreme Court
President Jair Bolsonaro used Friday, the eve of a near-carnival in Brazil, to sign four decrees that further ease the...
February 16, 2021Topic
Army
Brazil’s FUNAI Calls Army to Help Protect Isolated Indigenous Tribes
Funai requested the presence of Brazil’s Military Police and Army working in the Amazon region after armed men attacked a...
December 26, 2018
Angra dos Reis in Rio State Declares Public Security Emergency
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The mayor of Angra dos Reis, Fernando Jordão, declared a...
August 22, 2018
Military Operation Deploys 4,000 Armed Forces in Rio Today
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Approximately 4,000 soldiers from the Armed Forces and the Civil...
July 11, 2018
Armed Forces Deploy 1,800 Troops Around Leme in Rio
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Brazilian Armed Forces are conducting an operation today (Thursday,...
June 21, 2018Rio’s ‘Presente’ Security Operation Announces Over 12,000 Arrests
Earlier this week the state government of Rio announced that its ongoing ‘Operação Segurança Presente’ (Operation Security Today) program is...
April 24, 2018
Opinion: Occupy Rio! Part II
Opinion by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Like most Carioca residents, the Curmudgeon is unsure about exactly what...
March 8, 2018
Number of Violent Deaths in Rio Increased by 7.5 Percent in 2017
The Institute of Public Security (ISP) on Thursday, January 18th, announced that cases of violent death (sum of homicide, robbery,...
January 18, 2018
Brazil’s Armed Forces Participate in Operation in Rio’s Favelas
Today the military is based at strategic points surrounding the favela of Jacarezinho, while civilian, military and federal police officers...
January 18, 2018