Throughout the previous weeks, fear has taken hold of the Brazilian population, but particularly in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where a security policy has been adopted that is very much in line with the current federal government’s guidelines.
It is based on the idea of eliminating those considered “dangerous”, causing a spike in the number of homicides at the hands of state security agents. What’s more, the new security package proposed by the Ministry of Justice has ensured that murders carried out by state security agents remain unpunished.
However, massacres are clearly not taking place on the sandy beaches of Leblon. The war against organised crime has been used as a justification to attack the black civilian population that inhabit the favelas and the peripheries.
