Rio Beefs Up Security With Olympics a Year Away

Rio de Janeiro will employ more than twice the number of security personnel for the 2016 Olympics that London used in 2012, but authorities are not planning to occupy the city's notorious favelas, the games' organizers said Thursday. A total of 85,000 people will be involved, including law enforcement, private stewards and security guards. "There has never been anything like this in the country and the key word is cooperation," Andrei Augusto Rodrigues, Brazil's...

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