Vitor Abdala Reporter Agência Brasil

Rio de Janeiro – Spokespersons at the American Consulate in Rio de Janeiro have confirmed that the outdoor speech by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, in the central city plaza known as Cinelândia, has been cancelled. The speech was scheduled for Sunday afternoon (March 20).

One possibility for the cancellation is the matter of security. The fact is that security in Cinelândia has always been an issue (it is a very large open area surrounded on almost all sides by skyscrapers). Security concerns boiled up again last night after the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize military action in Libya.

Consulate officials said that the speech would take place but in an undisclosed location indoors. The most probable location would be the Municipal Theater, which is located near Cinelândia.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

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