The registration period for Brazilian tourist agencies seeking credentials to serve Chinese tourists started Tuesday (5), the Tourism Ministry reported. The step is a requirement imposed by the Asian country and may be completed online.
Brazil’s Integrated Frontier Protection Program, created in 2016, seized 34 tons of cocaine and 589 guns this year, as per figures surveyed up to the third quarter this year, released by the Federal Revenue Service and the president’s Institutional Security Office (GSI).
Brazil spent $23.7 billion on public security in 2015, a 11.6% increase from the previous year, according to the 10th edition of the Annual Report of Public Security published by the Brazilian Forum on Public Security (FBSP).
In a note released today (May 27), interim President Michel Temer deplored the rape of a 16-year-old girl last weekend in Rio de Janeiro. In the text, Temer announces the creation of a department in the Federal Police to probe into crimes against women.