RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's federal intervention in its northern state of Roraima officially started on Monday, as an intervention decree signed President Michel Temer was published.
With the intervention, Brazil's federal resources can be used and legislature can be bypassed to tackle public security issues in the state which has been suffering from prominent public and prison security crises.
Last week, Temer reached an agreement with Roraima state officials for a federal intervention before the decree was published.
The state of Roraima has been more prominent in Brazilian newscasts in the past couple of years due to a rise of immigration from Venezuela.
The intervention will last until the end of the Temer administration on Dec. 31. It will be up to the next president, Jair Bolsonaro, to decide whether to extend the intervention or not.
Brazil now has two states under federal intervention.
Rio de Janeiro state's public security sector has been under federal intervention since the first quarter of 2018, after two years of increasing crime rates and the state's difficulty to keep payments of policemen and public security workers up to date.
