Luiz Inácio seeks to increases militarization in Brazil
Featured image: Luiz Inácio da Silva with Ricardo Lewandowski. Source: A Nova Democracia.
The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, has presented the Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) in order to keep increasing the militarization in Brazil. A new police called Ostensive Federal Police or Rapid Deployment Police, which substitutes the current Federal Highway Police, and re-establishes the political police of general character, will be created.
The war in the countryside of Brazil. Every year there is an increase of the conflicts registered in the countryside, in 2023, there were 2,203 conflicts as the Pastoral Commission of Land reports. It is not only the amount of conflicts, which increases every year according to the aforementioned statistics, but also the intensity of those conflicts. For example, A Nova Democracia recently reported on the battle of Barro Branco and the great victory of the peasants, who managed to repel the military police forces and the ‘Invasão Zero’ goons of the latifundium.
It is no coincidence that one of the functions of this new police is to be able to work in the rural areas. Thus, the PEC seeks to increase the repressive capacities of the Brazilian State in the countryside. Other of its functions would be “to provide emergency and temporary aid to the security forces of the States, when required by its governors.” Thus, a body similar to the Military Police would be created, which is the main defender of the latifundium in conflicts in the countryside along with the goons.
This proposal is not new, but is a copy to the one already implemented by Bolsonaro, which was strongly criticized by the false “left.” A Nova Democracia wrote in its last editorial: “In other words, the “democratic” government is reconstituting the Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS), whose responsibilities were officially the same and more. Now, this project could be created by Bolsonaro himself. It is an aberration and a disaster, which, although not surprising, considering that the PT government has already approved t
