WORLD WORLDWIDE BRAZIL News Journal Update - (en) Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, MOB: MANIFESTO AGAINST THE NEW WAVE OF POLICE-MILITARY REPRESSION IN THE CARIOC FAVELAS. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On Monday, October 2, 2023, the Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Cláudio

Castro (PL), negotiated with the Federal Government the mobilization of
a new National Force to intervene in the state's favelas and outskirts.
Castro met with the Minister of Justice and Public Security (MJSP),
Flávio Dino (PSB), in Brasília, to align the details of the operational
plan for the new operations. ---- This measure begins the National
Program to Combat Criminal Organizations (ENFOC), an offshoot of the
Security Action Plan (PAS), signed in July by President Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva (PT). With an investment of R$2 billion, ENFOC will include
around 300 agents from the National Security Force and another 270 men
from the PRF (Federal Highway Police) in RJ. In addition, 50 vehicles,
22 armored cars, 1 helicopter and 1 rescue vehicle are being sent.

Perhaps such measures will surprise part of civil society, but we must
remember that this is not an unprecedented fact, quite the opposite. The
supposed "war on drugs" has been mobilizing trillions of dollars around
the world for decades in increasingly spectacular police actions, but
which have proven incapable of causing any impact to criminal factions,
while the residents of the territories where they are most active are
those who really suffer. In practice, what we see are summary
executions, forged flagrants and mass incarceration, overcrowding
Brazilian prisons. The main targets are young black people living in
communities, whether or not they are involved in illicit activities.

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