MercoPress - Followup: Here's why the Rio de Janeiro government wants to turn the favelas into a gated community (see below)
"Rio Governor asks for 4.000 Special Forces.
After five full days of bloody fighting between drug gangs and police forces the governor of the Brazilian state of Rio do Janeiro Rosinha Matheus officially requested 4.000 Special Forces from the federal government to help combat organized crime in the city’s shanty towns, favelas."