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- Title
Rio Tries Counterinsurgency.
- Authors
Muggah, Robert; Mulli, Albert Souza
- Abstract
The article discusses a policing initiative in slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as of 2012. Anticipating the 2016 Summer Olympics, officials are said to have launched an effort to regain control of the city's favelas, or squatter settlements, from gangs and drug traffickers. Unlike previous incursions by the Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE), Rio's military police, this effort is claimed to involve long-term provision of security and services by Pacification Police Units (UPP). The authors find this approach comparable to the U.S. counterinsurgency (COIN) efforts in Afghanistan. Although some officials cite the Rio pacification process as a global model, problems including unemployment, loss of the economic benefits of the drug trade, and higher real estate prices are mentioned.
- Subjects
RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); BRAZIL; COUNTERINSURGENCY; PACIFICATION (Military science); FAVELAS; VIOLENCE; DRUG traffic; GANGS; INNER city crime; HUMAN services; OLYMPIC Games (31st : 2016 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); SOCIAL history
- Publication
Current History, 2012, Vol 111, Issue 742, p62
- ISSN
0011-3530
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/curh.2012.111.742.62