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Rio’s Operation Lapa Presente Deemed Success After 1.5 Years

By Lisa Flueckiger, Senior Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Launched by Rio's Secretary of State in January 2014, the Operation Lapa Presente has so far arrested numerous people for crimes and sheltered 15,000 homeless people in the one year and four months of its existence and has been deemed a success so far by the authorities.

Part of the operation are a corps of now 73 military policemen and women, who patrol the area . . .

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