Given the current situation, more than ever, it is necessary that we open our eyes and tear away the deceptive veil of "re-democratization" in the territory dominated by the Brazilian State! They sell us the farce that the military dictatorship ended, but we, from the streets and from social struggles, know the bloody truth: the monster merely changed its skin. Torture, arrests, kidnappings, assassinations, informing, censorship - the same instruments of terror that haunted Brazil under the uniformed gorillas continue to be state policy against the poor, the Black, the Indigenous, and the militants. The question that echoes from the favelas to the quilombos is: did the dictatorship really end, or did it just change its name?
They exchanged the basements of the DOI-CODI for the "Guarantee of Law and Order" operations in the peripheries. Torture left the barracks and installed itself in police stops, in the violations of autos de resistência (resistance records), in the daily humiliations of the prison system. The kidnapping of Black bodies follows an industrial logic, whether in police extermination or in mass incarceration that tears thousands from their communities. The method is the same: terror as a tool of social control and the annihilation of those whom the system marks as undesirable.
The apparatus of political persecution has been modernized and given a "legal" guise. Preventive arrests, coerced plea bargains, and the criminalization of social movements are the new facets of arbitrariness. The National Security Law, a cursed legacy of the dictatorship, is wielded against those who dare to criticize the powerful. They no longer need an AI-5 when they have a complicit Judiciary and a mercenary media that legitimizes the persecution, constructing narratives that turn militants into "terrorists" and protests into "acts of war."
Censorship did not die; it became digital, algorithmic, and structural. It disguises itself as "community policy" on social networks, as "fighting disinformation" that silences dissenting voices, and as media monopolization that keeps the people intoxicated by ignorance. The violence of the State is now broadcast live, but the same machine that displays it tries to justify it as "necessary." The Black genocide, the Indigenous ethnocide, and the repression of the poor are living proof that the Brazilian state maintains its authoritarian essence.
And the electoral farce? Swapping generals for professional politicians does not change the nature of the State. As long as power remains in the hands of economic elites, military corporations, and an exceptionalist Judiciary, democracy will remain a bad joke. The same system that financed the dictatorship remains in power, renewing its makeup with each election to preserve its privileges. The "New Republic" was nothing but a pact among elites to keep the people under yoke, now with more "sophisticated" methods of repression.
Therefore, the answer is clear: the dictatorship never ended; it merely recombined. It is now civil, military, judicial, and media-based. But our resistance also reinvents itself. We will not place our faith in saviors of the motherland or in the rotten institutions of this genocidal state. Our struggle is for the end of the police, the armies, the end of the prison system, the end of class-based justice, and for the true disintegration of this murderous State (and its brother, Capital). The memory of the tortured and the murdered shouts to us: they shall not pass! For the freedom of all and for the end of ALL dictatorships, direct action and struggle in the streets!
For anarchy.
Liberto Herrera.
https://federacaocapixaba.noblogs.org/post/2026/01/21/do-doi-codi-a-favela-o-estado-genocida-e-sua-nova-mascara/
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(en) Brazil, Capixaba, FAC: From the DOI-CODI to the Favela: The Genocidal State and Its New Mask (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
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