Lula’s Security Policy is Rehashing Old Ideas
Brazil’s president is turning to the military to fight crime, a strategy that brings its own risks.
This month, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced an operation to temporarily place members of the military in ports and airports in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to fight organized crime. He also gave the military the task of strengthening border control to prevent and combat illegal trafficking. A president that promised to invest in crime prevention in his electoral platform chose the old path of militarizing security. Despite a moderate decline in violent deaths in recent years, Brazil still has an elevated homicide rate of 23.3 per 100,000 people....
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