The Bolsonaro clan is linked with the death of Mariele Franco, left wing representative in the city council of Rio de Janeiro that was assassinated by police militia last year.

Investigations running against the militia group Crime Office, uncovered that the mother and the wife of one of their leaders were working in the cabinet of the then deputy, Flavio Bolsonaro. The Crime Office is responsible by land grabbing, housing mafia and militia in the west region of Rio de Janeiro city. The group also do contract killing regularly, the clients are primary politicians and other groups. The investigations point out evidences that the group was responsible for the murder of Mariele.

Flavio Bolosonaro is son of the brazilian president and watchdog of the Bolsonaro clan. Elected senator, Flavio was always a vocal supporter of the Rio de Janeiro militia. Deep in a money laundering scandal since before he assumed office, Flavio and the Bolsonaro are now implied in a scheme of assassinations and militia mafia.

The Brazilian Anti-Terror Law doesn't apply to bombings.

In the words of Santana, the Governor of Ceará, the law needs to be reviewed. The comment comes in the middle of a major security crisis. Ceará is now the outbound point of the international drug trafficking routes in Brazil, the major drug trafficking organizations have intensified their presence in the State the later years. Now the organizations have came to a truce to mobilize against the government and new harsher security measures in prisons. The actions perpetrated include bombings of civil infrastructure like bridges, communications towers, energy transmission towers and the such.

Apparently, the government of Ceará ins't being able to use the Anti-Terror law. The law is a special provision that came to be in the labour party government and is directed against disruption of the public services by groups or individuals. The law have a couple of devices that exclude "political and civil rights movements" from being typified as terrorism, these devices are target for removal in at least two legislative proposals.

Apparently the law is much more suited against people manifestation than it is to organized crime exploding up bridges.

It happening, would the proposed revision asked by Santana put forward the already planed suppressing of political and civil rights organizations too?

On pension reform, Bolsonaro told reporters at an Air Force event that the minimum retirement age would be 62 for men and 57 for women, effective five years after any legislation is passed.

That is lower than the minimums of 65 years of age for men and 62 for women that were proposed by ex-president Michel Temer.

All step by step. Using famous capitalist approach - to make our numbers better you need to live worse.

We are down the road to hardline institutional dictorship.

Last week the actual government published the decree 9.527/2018 by which institutes the "Intelligence Task Force to combat the organized crime in Brazil". The constitution of this task force will be the presidency security cabinet, federal intelligence agencies, military intelligence agencies, departments of the ministry of security and a economic council of ministry of finance. The powers and objectives of the task force will be subsidize and define the public policies and actions of security regarding "organized crime" that will be implemented by the government. It will be self-governed.

Today the characterization of organized crime is broadened by the Anti-terrorism Law, by which any "sabotage" or interruption of normal service, the intent or organization to do so of public services, communication infrastructure, transportation, etc, cause it damage or not, is punishable with imprisonment in high security penitentiary.

Bad as it is, there is a device in Anti-terrorism Law that exclude social and political movement groups, parties and alike or any kind of manifestation revindicating rights or freedoms from that characterization.

There are two projects, one in senate other in the deputies chamber, to remove that device from the law, broadening the typification to any kind of action made by "organized" groups that in any way, by example, interrupt the transit, be subject to special police powers, punishable with imprisonment in high security and typification as a terrorist.

The new government already have 15% far right seats and a lot of supporters. Army generals are mobilized and intervening in the public affairs. The son of the principal candidate to the executive seat, himself a deputy, expressed a couple of times insinuations to closing the Supreme Tribunal of Justice. Bolsonaro himself is making declarations of intent to persecute politically the opposition if he becomes president and that he will "cleanse" the country. All that backed with monetary and capital owning support and following an ultra liberal agenda.

Already there reports of intensification of activity off the books from military police, army intelligence agents and the like.

At this rate even if moderate candidate Haddad win against the odds, he will be unable (or unwilling to do so) to impede the institutional machine from spinning down to the violent degradation of social order and the hardening of fascism in Brazil.

Some comments about the situation above from a legal perspective: https://jornalggn.com.br/noticia/urgente-os-riscos-da-forca-tarefa-de-inteligencia-por-antonio-salvador

@samuelcabral

There's no dialog anymore. The country was split.

And it is good sign. Bad sign is if nation suddenly will start to unite around elite.

Close to

«Deutschland über alles» and «Gott mit uns».

In the past days, Chief General staff of the army also expressed "concern with the divisions" and "a need to pacify the country" a couple of times and declared that "the army is ready to intervene if needed". The vice-president candidate, an army general, also make clear that he see the possibility to a military coup if called by the president.

Quite expected. Capitalists become concerned a little that it won't be puppet socialists anymore.

Polls show pro-Israel front-runner, known for repeated offensive comments against women, gays and the poor, can count on more than one in three ballots.

Main thing here is that he is "pro-Israel" :-) all else is just minor stuff. Quote from happy Israel newspaper.

Brazil broke its own record for homicides last year, according to new figures which showed that 63,880 people were killed in 2017 – a 3% increase from the previous year.

Data from the independent Brazilian Public Security Forum said that an average of 14 people died at the hands of police officers every day – an increase of 20% from the previous year.

Rapes also rose 8% to 60,018, while murders of women increased 6.1% to 4,539.

@RoadsidePicnic

BTW, some places in Brazil already have fielded mass surveillance with facial recognition (of everyone) in gatherings and events.

It is standard approach used by ruling class now.

Even simple smartphone or camera recording is stored in cloud and run via recognition software, always.

Also, there's really big issues with ANCINE. Previous audits indicated 75% concentration in the funding of points of exhibition into 3 companies (related to multiplex corporations), one year in witch one of the three have received more than a entire national program to original content production.

Also, there's numbers pointing that ANCINE has not been very efficient with the concentration of productions also.

The problems put question to the effectiveness that ANCINE have to reach the goals of the setted public policies, but the TCU is more concerned with accounting.

But surely shutting down all the production off the year to make changing in accounting systems and routines, with which will not change shit, seems great.

The Brazilian Court of Audit (TCU) is conducting a procedure to investigate the need to put sanctions on the National Cinema Agency (ANCINE), the prime institution responsible to fund the national cinema and television productions, to foment the audiovisual industry etc.

The procedure finds roots in anterior manifestations of TCU about the poor accounting control of ANCINE (they must verify the funds they lend to projects) and to the concentration of funds lended, observed in major lines of incentive related to expansion and modernizing of points of exhibition (cinema).

The actual procedure seems to be centered on the failure to make effective accounting validation of projects (primary affect small companies, producers, auteurs and original national production).

All normal things here, every year it happens, every year ANCINE and TCU have that shit.

The great thing is that now the TCU is willing to put sanctions on ANCINE (effectively crippling most of the national production). The president of ANCINE published a desperate article in Folha (one big newspaper) alleging that the guys of TCU in Rio recommended for the suspension of funds (can't verify that, the process is classified).