The Brazilian Armed Forces will spend R$580M ($182M) of the federal government's budget on "strategic defense security" at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Defense Ministry announced Tuesday, according to Antônio Werneck of O GLOBO. The plan "counts on the action of around 38,000" members of the Brazilian Army, Marines and Air Force. Most troops will remain at the Deodoro Complex in Rio de Janeiro, but troops "will be patrolling" cities like Brasília, São Paulo, Manaus and Salvador, "where football games will take place." The Ministry of Justice's secretary for security at large events Andrei Passos Rodrigues announced at the beginning of March that federal and state governments would "assume security" for the 159 Olympic installations during the Games. This meant the 15,000 private security officers who "would have initially done the job will be substituted by police forces," leaving the Armed Forces recruits for the internal security of the Olympic installations. The Armed Forces is also "preparing specialized troops, in conjunction with the Federal Police, Military Police, Civil Police and [Military] Intelligence, to double their attention, have a more distributed effect, create a larger quantity of preventive measures and to be prepared for ready-response, if necessary" (O GLOBO, 3/24).
