Brazil Reinforces Presence in Haiti with 850 Troops

A force comprising 209 soldiers from various Army units in Northeast Brazil embarked for Haiti yesterday, May 23, from the Recife air base. They will be part of the fifth Brazilian contingent composing the United Nations (UN) peace force in that country.

The force will join another 58 Brazilian military officers who left for Haiti on Friday, May 19. The fifth contingent is composed of 850 troops.

Three more embarkations are scheduled to occur between now and June 4. The entire group, which will be engaged in the protection of the population and the security of government officials, underwent a rigorous training program that began this January.

Haiti faces problems of violence, mainly involving armed gangs. In February, two years after the departure of the ousted president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, the population elected the current president, René Préval, to govern the country. The UN peace mission, however, was maintained.

ABr

Tags:

You May Also Like

Following President Rousseff Visit to Obama Brazil to Send 20,000 Students to US

After meeting US president Barack Obama in the White House Oval Office, Brazilian president ...

Brazil Draws Up Plan to Export Animation

Brazil's Ministry of Culture has established the National Program for Development of Brazilian Animation. ...

World’s Unions Meet in Brazil and Bash Neoliberalism

The secretary of Social and Economic Policy of the International Confederation of Free Trade ...

A Brazilian Musical Celebration Finds Its New York Expression

In Northeastern Brazil a forró party unites communities and generations, with couples dancing, locked ...

Brazil Searching Candidates for This Year’s Teacher Prize

Inscriptions for this year’s Teacher Prize for Brazilian public school teachers will close on ...

Brazilian Airline TAM Grows 20% in International Market Getting 38% Share

According to data for June from ANAC, Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency, Brazilian Airline ...

Killing and Torture by Police Still Widespread in Brazil

In its latest periodic review of Brazil, international organization Human Rights Watch, whose mission ...

Brazil Uses Beijing Games to Promote Country and Win 2016 Olympics

A Brazilian space to promote culture, sport, economics and the natural beauties of the ...

Brazil Finds Huge Gas Field Enough to Supply 30% of Country’s Demand

Brazil’s oil and gas company OGX informed the press that a new onshore field ...

How Red Tape Made Brazil into a Soap Opera Superpower

The complaint one hears most commonly about Brazil from both Brazilians and outsiders regards ...