Create account

Coverage dated January 18, 2022

Police deploy in Rio to retake gang-controlled favelas

Headline from France 24

Some 1,200 heavily armed military police launched an operation Wednesday to wrench control of Rio de Janeiro's slums from drug gangs, starting with the notorious Jacarezinho favela where residents to…

France 24's own description from its feed. We collect headlines and these descriptions, not full articles; read the original reporting below.

Read the reports

Reports & sources

5 articles, oldest first.

  1. France 24

    Police deploy in Rio to retake gang-controlled favelas (opens France 24)

    Published

    France 24's feed description

    Some 1,200 heavily armed military police launched an operation Wednesday to wrench control of Rio de Janeiro's slums from drug gangs, starting with the notorious Jacarezinho favela where residents to…

  2. Al Jazeera

    Brazil: Police launch major operation in impoverished Rio favela (opens Al Jazeera)

    Published

    Al Jazeera's feed description

    More than 1,000 heavily-armed police occupy Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho neighbourhood, where a May raid killed dozens.

  3. MyNorthwest

    Rio de Janeiro police move to regain control of some favelas (opens MyNorthwest)

    Published

    MyNorthwest's feed description

    RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Some 1,200 police officers were deployed to Rio de Janeiro's working-class Jacarezinho neighborhood and its surroundings early

  4. Deutsche Welle

    Brazil: Rio police occupy favela to 'reclaim territory' | DW (opens Deutsche Welle)

    Published

    Deutsche Welle's feed description

    In a major operation to push back against gangs, about 1,200 Brazilian military police were deployed to a neighborhood as part of a project to "change the lives of the people."

Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.

Police deploy in Rio to retake gang-controlled favelas | Since Then