Brazilian Government Announces New Repressive Program After Meeting with Trump
Featured image: Lula da Silva after meeting with Trump. Source: AND
The Brazilian government increases militarization of the country after a meeting between Lula da Silva and Donald Trump. On May 12, the program “Brazil Against Organized Crime” was approved after a meeting with the Yankee president. R$1.06 billion will be invested in the program in 2026 alone.
The program is divided into four axes: targeting the sources of revenue of the “factions”, strengthening of prison system’s security, homicide investigation, and combating arms trafficking and explosives. R$388.9 million will be invested to financial combat and additional R$330.6 million to the prison system.
As A Nova Democracia (AND) states: “the main goal is to integrate repressive measures into the different spheres of the federation, such as financial and logistical strangulation of the groups triggered by the government as part of the so-called ‘territorial dominance’”. The Integrated Force for Combating Organized Crime (FICCO) will be created and a large amount of resources will be invested to implement maximum security regime in 138 State prisons that are considered strategic. Additionally, a large logistical apparatus will be acquired, including drones, body scanners, video-monitoring systems, and technologies to extract data from phones.
The new program joins the “Anti-Factions” Law Project, sanctioned on March 24, which establishes two new crimes: the “structured social dominance”, with sentences between 20 and 40 years, and “favoring this dominance”, with up to 20 years.
This new program shows the servile attitude of the Brazilian puppet government before the sole hegemonic superpower, the United States, which demands in its new offensive in Latin America an increase in militarization under the so-called “war on drugs” and arms trafficking. However, this militarization and repression is directed especially against the poor masses, who are suffering from an escalation of the State violence.
The general director of AND, Victor Bellizia, pointed out that Donald Trump uses this topic as “political and electoral blackmail against Brazil”, and that the Yankee’s “help” to combat the so-called “factions” comes along with demands for security, intelligence, and strategic data and resources.
