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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 10 December 2018
In brief: Brazil
* Brazil’s President Michel Temer has signed a decree declaring a federal intervention in the northern state of Roraima, which borders Venezuela. The decree puts state services under federal responsibility and essentially relieves the current governor, Suely Campos, of her duties until 31 December, the end of the incumbent federal and state governments’ term. Governor-elect Antonio Oliverio Garcia de Almeida (known as ‘Antonio Denarium’) has been appointed to oversee the federal intervention. Federal intervention was declared in the face of the “deterioration of public accounts” in Roraima (state employees, including prison guards, have not been paid for months) and the subsequent risks this poses to public security. Roraima has been undergoing a crisis in its prison system, as well as struggling to adapt to the influx of Venezuelans who are fleeing their country, factors which have contributed to increased insecurity and the state’s financial collapse.
