Uruguay has stepped up border security controls with Brazil to prevent the entry of members of criminal organizations following the large-scale police operation in Rio de Janeiro that left more than a hundred dead.
Uruguay's Minister of the Interior, Carlos Negro, stated on Thursday: "Measures have already been taken. This leads us to reflect on what security policies we want to implement in our country and which we must not implement."
"The situation in Rio de Janeiro, of course, worries us. It also makes us think about what cannot happen and what we must not do in our country," he said at a press conference after attending a Senate commission.
Similarly, Negro expressed concern over the use of "indiscriminate violence" that "was exercised without clear objectives and which has surely led to the death of innocent people."
"There are explicit orders for the protection and reinforcement of border surveillance, and the police are taking the matter into their hands," he concluded.
