Extra Security Expected for Brazil’s Bolsonaro Inauguration
While most Brazilians make plans for New Year’s Eve and Day, a select group of people are working around the...
December 27, 2018Topic
Security
Rio’s Witzel Wants to Attract International Investors to State
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – International investors are still weary of investing in projects...
December 4, 2018
Highway Police Report 327% Increase in Drug Seizures in Rio
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Federal Highway Police (PRF) seized more than twelve tons...
November 8, 2018
Brazil Deploys More than 28,000 Troops for the 2018 Election
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - General elections are scheduled to be held in Brazil on...
September 28, 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
Rio de Janeiro Sees Thefts Decline, but Homicides Increase
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Data released yesterday (August 14th) by the Institute of Public...
August 15, 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
Brazil Creates Single System of Public Security to Fight Crime
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – President Temer sanctioned on Monday (June 11th) the creation...
June 12, 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