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Security & Strategic Review - August 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
With elections looming, Rio faces two public security challenges
The government of Rio de Janeiro state is struggling to regain momentum in two sensitive public security areas: the planned spread of the favela ‘pacification’ strategy, put on hold earlier in the year as the required personnel had to be diverted to contain a series of attacks on established police pacification units (UPPs), and the public perception that police violence remains unchecked.
- With elections looming, Rio faces two public security challenges
- CUBA-US: Another covert USAID operation unveiled
- REGION: ‘Simple’ cyber attacks target Latin America
- VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA: Maduro closes border to curb smuggling
- PERU-CHILE: Peruvian hackers break into Fach email accounts
- POINTERS
- PARAGUAY: Military to remain deployed in the north
- POINTERS
- MEXICO: Trying to tally ‘disappearances’ and kidnapping
- POINTERS
- REGION-US: ‘Front porch’ cooperation with Washington
- POINTERS