South America,
Are They Next For An Uprising?
By Nick Ashton, Founder, CEO,
Tracometry Group of Companies.
The fact is people are upset and more than annoyed with government, who
they, in most cases, voted in. Turkey
was front page news for the last few weeks and will be continuing to take up
print and video space on the news channels, as the violence spreads and more
body bags are ordered. Who is next to
become the replacement or standing alongside annoyed citizens.
South America! Brazil!
Brazil has more on their attention getting plate than you can think
of. In fact over the next three years,
the gold, silver, bronze and cups will be fought for in the stadiums of Brazil. Football and the Olympics will dominate the
television and computer screens or will they?
Added is the visit from the Pope in July.
Local and federal security officials in Brazil - primarily in Rio de
Janeiro and Brasilia - are increasingly preoccupied over providing protection
for Pope Francis' seven day visit to Rio de Janeiro July 22-28.
Officials are at the highest levels in recent weeks have put into place
what will be the largest, most intricate, and unprecedented protection
operation ever mounted in the country for a visiting high-level dignitary.
The papal visit presents a unique set of highly complicated security
concerns never before seen in Brazil.
This visit has more than prayers required as the whole future of South
America hangs on the success of the visit.
Not from the religious aspect, from the security sense, as one false
move or failure will change the whole vista of Brazil and the whole of South
America.
Kicking a football around will not matter, even it is the Confederations
or World Cups, or the Olympics, the preceding visit of the Pope will set the precedent.
The full security information of the Pope’s visit has been unveiled and
released, they left nothing out, even down to what time the man has
breakfast. Why?
Somewhere between 8,500 and 12,000 military soldiers will be deployed to
Rio as well. President Dilma Rousseff has declared Guaratiba – a suburb
community 60km from Rio where the Pope is expected to give a mass to 3 million
people - a "Guarantee of Law and Order" zone, allowing the military
to temporarily partake in public security and policing activities within the
zone. Other key World Youth Day events will also take place in the
municipality.
Brazil’s specially-trained and well-equipped National Force security
officers - based in Brasilia and under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice
- will deploy somewhere between 1,200 and 1,600 officers to Rio to act as a
"super police force" to guard areas where they are needed during pope
movements.
The state of Rio will have 44,000 officers (both street police and
investigative officers) available and working in rotating shifts. All vacation
and non-essential training days have been cancelled during the week the Pope
visits Rio. “Any and all personnel we have at our disposal will be working,”
one local official said.
Rio's much-feared special force police unit, called BOPE, has been in
recent weeks doing security operations in rough neighborhoods that are in or
around where the Pope will be visiting.
And Brazil’s national intelligence service, ABIN, will have plain clothed
agents in Rio, and a command center. They have already been in communications
with neighboring country intelligence services about sharing of information of
potential threats.
When it comes to Pope Francis' visit to Brazil, this is a country giving
off the impression they are leaving nothing to risk, and taking no chances.
The people of Brazil could care less, they are more worried about bus and
underground fares. Protests in Brazil
against bus and underground fare rises have turned violent in the country's
largest city, Sao Paulo, with violence also reported at protests in Rio de
Janeiro.
Police
fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas, detaining some 40 people in centre of
Sao Paulo.
Police say
they seized petrol bombs, knives and drugs.
At least 55 people have been injured in the Sao Paulo clashes, says the
Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
The
newspaper says six of its journalists have been wounded, two of them shot in
the face.
Police have
been trying to contain the demonstrators.
Trying is not good enough as the protesters spilt and now you have a divided
protection team which fail.
They have
now reached the city's main avenue, Avenida Paulista, where many shops were vandalized
on Tuesday following a bus fare hike protest.
State
governor Geraldo Alckmin branded the rioters "vandals" and promised
to act to avoid a repeat of the violence.
"The
police acted with professionalism," Mr Alckmin said, rejecting claims that
they had used excessive force.
Brazil's
Minister of Justice, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, said the demonstrations were
legitimate but resorting to violence and vandalism was unacceptable.
In Rio de
Janeiro and other cities, thousands marched to demand that an increase in fares
be revoked.
Prices for
a single ticket in Sao Paulo were raised on 2 June from 3 reals ($1.40, £0.90)
to 3.20 reals ($1.50, £0.96).
The
authorities say that the rise is well below inflation, which since the last
price rise in January 2011 has been at 15,5% according to official figures.
Is Brazil, South America’s version of the Arab Spring?
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