Rio de Janeiro Asks Armed Forces to Stay Until October
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Rio de Janeiro’s Governor Sergio Cabral asked Brazil’s Defense Ministry to keep 2,000 troops in Rio’s occupied shanty towns until October as the city tries to reduce violence ahead of the 2014 soccer World Cup.
Rio wants the military to control the Complexo do Alemao and Vila Cruzeiro favelas, as the shanty towns are known, until the local police can set up bases there, Cabral said in an interview on CBN radio today. In the meantime, state police will be trained to take over from the army in these areas, Cabral said.