Study identifies 530 far-right groups in Brazil, some of them terrorist, and 36 of them operating in Rio
Data from the NGO Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows that Brazil is currently the country in the world with the fastest-growing number of far-right groups.
Power Agenda When figures like Bruno Aiub, aka Monark, openly and publicly defend Nazism—in the YouTuber's specific case, the creation of a Nazi party in Brazil—they speak to an audience that has been expanding significantly in recent years.
According to a report by Globo, data from the NGO Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows that today Brazil is the country in the world with the fastest growing number of far-right groups, concentrated, according to monitoring by the Far Right Observatory (formed by academics from more than ten Brazilian universities and other countries) and research by Professor Adriana Dias, from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.
The latest data available from the researchers consulted, provided exclusively to O GLOBO, confirms that São Paulo is the state with the largest presence of these groups, totaling 137, 51 of which are in the capital. Far-right cells were also found in Piracicaba, Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, and São Carlos.
Across the country, there are already more than 530 extremist cells, which, in a report produced in the first months of this year, Adriana divided into categories according to their ideologies, such as Hitler/Nazi, Holocaust denial, White ultranationalist, Radical Catholicism, Fascism, Supremacist, Creativity Brazil, Masculinism/Misogynist Supremacy, and Racist Neo-Paganism. In 2019, the expert detected 334 cells.
In Rio de Janeiro, 36 groups were identified, 15 of them in the capital. Among the neighborhoods with the largest presence of far-right cells are Méier, Tijuca, and Copacabana. In Niterói, researchers identified two other groups. One of them, known as Cali, was responsible for the attack on the production company of the comedy group Porta dos Fundos in 2019.
— Since 2018, Brazil has become the country with the greatest growth of far-right groups. This phenomenon is related to the election of Jair Bolsonaro, who, on a subterranean level, is linked to these ideologies. Today, it is estimated that 15% of Brazilians are far-right — says Michel Gherman, member of the Observatory of the Far Right, professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and coordinator of the Brazil-Israel Institute.
Subscribe to 247, Support via Pix, Subscribe to TV 247, in the channel Cuts 247 and watch: