Brazil will spend some 900 million reals ($530 million) to assure security during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, the country’s justice minister has said. “We will expand investments in public security threefold, but we need even more [funds],” Tarso Genro said at a seminar on averting violence [...]
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Swimsuit-clad revellers on Copacabana Beach waved green, yellow and blue flags and partied through the night when Rio de Janeiro pulled off its marvellous feat of winning the 2016 Olympic Games. In Copenhagen, where the decision was announced, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva burst into tears of joy, as did football legend Pele and [...]
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None of the violence I saw in Brazil has changed my view that giving the 2016 Olympics to Rio is one of the IOC’s greatest ideas It was just after 5pm last Friday when I walked out of the Morumbi shopping mall into the street. The traffic was bad. In Sao Paulo, the traffic is [...]
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised to deploy federal police and allocate $60 million in aid to Rio de Janeiro after a weekend shootout downed a police helicopter and raised questions about the city’s ability to host safe Olympic Games. Mr. da Silva made the announcement on a day when a third policeman [...]
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Brazilian officials are insisting security won’t be a problem for the 2016 Olympics, despite drug-gang violence that plunged Rio de Janeiro into a day of bloody chaos just two weeks after it was picked to host the games. An hourslong firefight between rival gangs in one of the city’s slums killed a dozen people, injured [...]
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With a gang war looming, the 2016 Olympics have suddenly given Arthur and other Rio slum kids a chance to dream A cloud fell across the face of Arthur’s mother and her son bowed his head as she began to speak. She was afraid, she said, because everyone knows there will soon be a war [...]
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who as a boy sold peanuts on the street, beat the world’s two richest nations for the 2016 Olympic Games. Now, he must defeat Rio de Janeiro’s violent crime, which residents call the biggest cloud over their city’s postcard-perfect bid. Lula will also have to push Rio, the [...]
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About 24 hours before the International Olympic Committee’s release on Wednesday its evaluation commission report on the four finalists to host the 2016 Summer Games, a shootout between police and robbers described as drug traffickers forced the authorities to shut down a main artery near Rio de Janeiro’s international airport for five to 15 minutes [...]
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