"Narcoterrorism" is a passport for US intervention in Brazil, says Luiz Eduardo Soares.

247 - The massacre during a recent police operation in Rio de Janeiro was harshly criticized by anthropologist and public security expert Luiz Eduardo Soares. In an interview with TV 247, the researcher described the operation as a "resounding failure" and stated that it had no relation to public security, but rather to political objectives.

Soares explained that it is illusory to treat the raid as a simple police action. "In fact, no one who isn't completely naive or detached from the problems of public security could suppose that a raid of that type could serve any effective purpose in providing security," he stated. He emphasized that operations of this type result in the deaths of suspects, police officers, and innocent people, without any structural change in the fight against crime. "The next day everything returns to routine and the dynamics are reproduced. Therefore, this produces no results."

According to Soares, the action was tragic and "absolutely unacceptable by any standard." The expert also highlighted the political context of the operation: "This was done a week before the governor's trial at the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), with a high probability of conviction – at least until the eve of the intervention."

The scholar warned of a worrying movement within the discourse of the Brazilian far-right, which has begun to adopt the term "narcoterrorism" to associate organized crime with international terrorism. "Now there is the introduction into the discourse of the Brazilian far-right of the expression 'narcoterrorism,' in order to inscribe its code in the transnational discourse of the far-right and in line with Trump's discourse," observed Soares, referring to the current president of the United States, Donald Trump.

According to him, this reclassification – which is advancing within the Chamber of Deputies through projects sponsored by the right wing – could have serious consequences for Brazilian sovereignty. “The governor has already sent a document to Washington requesting the classification of the criminal faction as 'narcoterrorist,' and this was allegedly mediated by Eduardo Bolsonaro. So there is a very objective intervention in this regard, with indisputable political intentions.”

According to the expert, this maneuver has the potential to set a dangerous precedent for foreign interference. "This reclassification would function as a kind of passport or password granted to the United States, allowing them to consider the possibility of taking action within Brazil or outside of Brazil, but directed against Brazilians," he warned.