The IDB and Interpol Expand Their Intervention in Brazil

Featured image: Representatives of the Brazilian government pose in front of Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, during an official visit. This closer relationship with international law enforcement agencies comes amidst deepening cooperation between the established old Brazilian State and foreign police forces. Source: Ricardo Stuckert via AND

Brazil is expanding its cooperation with international security institutions with the pretext of “fighting organized crime”. Behind this initiative, however, lies a much larger imperialist intervention, mainly Yankee. The new agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) involves around 5 billion Brazilian reais to expand a supposed joint action against so-called “organized crime,” while the IDB has announced that its security investments across Latin America and the Caribbean will rise to 4 billion USD spanning three years.

A memorandum of understanding was signed in July this year between the Brazilian government and the IDB at the 3rd Regional Summit of the Alliance for Security, Justice and Development. The agreement contains the integration of the imperialist agency Interpol into the Rapid Response Task Force Against Violence and Organized Crime, a mechanism linked to the Alliance.

This agreement also links with Luiz Inácio da Silva’s “Brazil Against Organized Crime” program, launched in 2026 with over a billion reais in funding. The program expands Brazil’s repressive security measures through harsher anti-faction laws and increased international cooperation, including with Yankee imperialism.

The enormous financial resources involved show that this is not simply a small technical cooperation program. Billions of reais are being directed toward policing, investigations, prison security, and financial surveillance. Such investments give imperialists a growing role in shaping policies inside Brazil and throughout Latin America and are a step toward greater foreign subjugation and repression, mainly Yankee imperialism.

From an anti-imperialist perspective, this development must be viewed in the context of longstanding Yankee intervention in Latin America. For decades, the United States and institutions connected to its political and economic sphere have promoted cooperation against “drugs”, “organized crime” and “terrorism” as a means of expanding their influence over the security apparatuses of Latin American countries.

Foreign funding, intelligence cooperation and international security programs create dependencies–equipments such as ScanEagle don’t even operate without the Pentagon– while allowing external powers to gain greater access to national institutions and security policies. The new agreement is part of a wider regional trend. The growing presence of Yankee-institutions in Latin America, represents another step toward subordinating the region’s sovereignty to the interests of the sole hegemonic superpower.

AND points out that the use of crime, especially so-called “drug trafficking,” as a justification for US interactions is historically known for masking their real intentions: the implementation of counterinsurgency policies, pointing out the similarities to the Yankee led counterinsurgency cooperation against the People’s War in Peru. Noting in addition, that the recent invitation of the 60 countries to coordinate against the “resurgence of the far left” reveals the real target of Yankee imperialism.

Latin America has great significance to Yankee imperialism and it’s hegemony. The combative movements, especially the struggle for land over all and the Agrarian Revolution in Brazil therefore, are a target of these “security cooperation.” Multiple Brazilian lackey politicians have pointed to by relentlessly striving to link the struggle for land organizations to common criminal activity and drug trafficking in an effort to criminalize and suppress organizations that challenge the power of the big landlords.

During A Propósito #369 , broadcast on July 16th on the AND channel , the newspaper’s representative stated that “here in Brazil, there is a real peasant war for land, and they are also keeping an eye on that.”

We have reported on the increasing Yankee imperialist intervention in Latin America in general, as well as in Brazil in particular: