2025-12-24 09:30
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2025-12-24 09:30
The municipal authorities of Rio de Janeiro have announced a plan to regain control over districts of the former Brazilian capital that are actually run by criminal organizations.
According to recent research, 4 million people, i.e. almost 35%, live in these parts of the city. population of Rio De Janeiro.
A plan to rid the city of armed gangsprepared by the Brazilian Ministry of Public Security, will be implemented from the beginning of next year. The document was submitted to the Brazilian Supreme Court for approval.
Experts consider it the most difficult to carry out police operations in favelasi.e. in vast districts of poverty created on the hills partially surrounding the city. In the fall of this year, these areas again became the site of bloody clashes between police and armed gangs.
According to research conducted this month, at least 4 million inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro – 35 percent the population of the country's “most Brazilian” city, as tourist guides call Rio, lives in areas controlled by armed criminal groups.
These areas currently constitute just over 18%. city area. “The police presence there on a daily basis is rather small,” admitted the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Government, announcing the “effective attempt to free the population from the violence of armed criminal organizations”, long awaited by the inhabitants of the metropolis.
The largest and bloodiest police operation carried out in November this year against a powerful drug gang Red Commando (Comando Vermelho) in the Penha favela in Rio de Janeiro, ended with the death of 122 people.
The new plan to fight gangs that terrorize residents of poorer districts of Rio de Janeiro includes creating conditions conducive to the creation of new micro-enterprises.
Next year, with the financial support of the left-wing government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 70,000 are to be built in districts of Rio previously controlled by armed gangs. new jobs. (PAP)
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