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Governor Witzel Suggests Closing Access to Rio’s Favelas to Counter Cargo Theft

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The proposal is part of a plan to counter cargo theft announced on Wednesday, October 16th, by Governor Wilson Witzel. The initiative, scheduled for early 2020, would feature in a Present Safety project and would act in "stretches of roads and accesses where there is access to cargo theft in [favela] communities," said Witzel.

It "[will] virtually eliminate and greatly reduce the money that finances arms and drug trafficking in our state," he continued.

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