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carlspeaking • today at 6:09 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

So you're OK with ignoring the rule of law and the constitution, which says the states are responsible for public security, and mass encarcerating people without due process in Salvadoran-style prisons?

And the Banco Master investigation (amongst many, many others), which has been happening under Lula's government and has found all kinds of involvement with PCC, doesn't count as going after drug traffickers/criminal organizations?

The phenomenon of PCC and CV being called terrorists only started when Trump gave those groups the terrorist designation, a patently political act, in order to bolster Flavio Bolsonaro's hypothetical/fake claims of being tough on crime and to try and weaken Lula during the campaign.

The Bolsonaro family's ties with organized crime are deep, widely known, and non-controversial at this point. Flavio never, not once denied it when Lula and others called him a miliciano, and the results of the runoff show who Brazilians believe is better equipped to protect Brazil and its citizens.