Is Brazil returning to military rule?

Feb 19, 2018
Army forces to take control in Rio as gang crime rises

The Brazilian army is to take over security in Rio de Janeiro following a violent crime spree that marred the city’s famous carnival celebrations last week.

It is the “first intervention of the armed forces since Latin America’s largest country returned to democracy three decades ago”, following 21 years of military dictatorship, says the Financial Times.

Signing the decree on Friday, President Michel Temer admitted the move was “extreme”, but said organised crime has almost taken over Rio. “It is a metastasis that spreads around the country,” Temer said.

The measure, which will be in place until the end of the year, “is a response to growing demands ahead of the October general elections for a crackdown on crime and violence”, says Bloomberg.

More:
http://www.theweek.co.uk/91748/is-brazil-returning-to-military-rule

DU progressives' true friend in Brazil has shared info. for years with sane members, including so many images of the fascist weekend demonstrations which continued so long as they conspired to overthrow Dilma Rousseff. You may recall they started gibbering, and dragging their mass produced signs out on sunny days calling for the return of their dictatorship. They apparently want to bring back the torture, the disappearances of political undesirables, the vicious public racism. We all know these people are going down, and are trying to deny the inevitable with their dying breaths.

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