Temer não participa de reunião do comitê de crise que avalia greves

Brazil's President Michel Temer speaks during a press conference at Guanabara Palace, Rio de Janeiro, on February 17, 2018. Brazil's President Michel Temer on Saturday arrived in Rio de Janeiro to begin implementing his decree giving the military full control over security in crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro. Temer has handed the military full control of security in Rio de Janeiro in an increasingly desperate fight to tame runaway gang violence. Army patrols are already used in Rio's gang-ruled favelas, but a decree signed by Temer will now give the military full control of security operations in Rio state, which the president said had virtually been seized by organized crime gangs.The army will now have primacy over the state police, a situation unheard of since the country's return to democracy in 1985 after two decades of military rule. Responsibility for security in Rio will now fall to General Walter Souza Braga Neto, who was the man in charge of coordinating security when the city hosted the 2016 Olympic Games. / AFP PHOTO / Carl DE SOUZA