Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Brazilian army
occupies Rio shantytown ahead of World Cup
Is Rio de Janeiro safe
for football fans? Only a month away to the world’s largest sport event of the
year, FIFA World Cup, the main hosting city needed to bring in as many as 2,500
troops to conduct a crackdown on slams only few kilometers from its gate
airport. Complexo da Mare is the largest of that kind that harbor notorious, mighty
gangs that have been fighting each other and even attacking police posts. The
local police are no match against the firepower and numbers of the gangs. The
city then had to ask for military’s support to “occupy” the area until at least
after the last day of the world event.
Will that be
enough to secure safety of all the fans, players and visitors to the town? What
will happen to the slams after the event? Will they go back to the same
security level as before?
Enjoy reading and
learning about Brazil’s serious commitment for safety of the sport event.
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