Governor of Rio de Janeiro said that the measure aims to add solutions and help change public security in Brazil
The governor of, (PL-RJ), met, this Thursday (30), with right-wing leaders and announced the creation of a Peace Consortium, whose objective is to combat organized crime. “We are going to create a consortium between the States to share experience and actions against organized crime, so that we can discuss strategies,” he said. I proposed that the headquarters be in Rio de Janeiro and the idea is that we can share and add solutions and practical help, which are an opportunity to change public security in Brazil”, he added.
The meeting was attended by Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), from São Paulo, Jorginho (PL), from Santa Catarina, Ronaldo Caiado (União Brasil), from Goiás, Romeu Zema (Partido Novo), from Minas Gerais. The decision comes after the mega-operation in Rio de Janeiro, the largest in the state’s history, against the Comando Vermelho (CV), which left more than 120 dead – numbers greater than the massacre in Carandiru.
According to Ronaldo Caiado, the Peace Consortium will ensure that “all forces can be used to assist any of the governors at the time of emergency, without it being necessary to ask whether they need help or not, the sending will be immediate”, he said. “If you want peace, prepare for war,” he said.
The governor of Minas Gerias, Romeu Zema, declared his support for Cláudio Castro and congratulated him on the operation. “I’m here today because I believe in the work the governor is doing and organized crime,” he said, adding that “organized crime is an ideology, with music and films”, and that it needs to be fought. “It is necessary to have a more critical view, public security is a State job, we cannot criminalize the work of the security forces as has happened in Brazil”, declared Zema.
