WORLD WORLDWIDE SOUTH-AMERICA BRAZIL - news journal UPDATE - (en) Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, MOB: MANIFESTO AGAINST THE NEW WAVE OF POLICE-MILITARY REPRESSION IN THE SLUMS OF RIO DE JANEIRO. (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 slums 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 launches 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, the 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 police
cars, 22 armored cars, 1 helicopter and 1 rescue vehicle are being sent.

Such measures may surprise some members of civil society, but we must
remember that this is not an unprecedented event, quite the opposite.
The supposed "war on drugs" has been mobilizing trillions of dollars
worldwide for decades in increasingly spectacular police actions, but
they have proven incapable of causing any impact on criminal gangs,
while the residents of the territories where they are most active are
the ones who really suffer. In practice, what we see are summary
executions, fabricated arrest warrants 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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