Mainstream Media Discovers 'Slaughter' In Favela, Ignores US Complicity
The Guardian’s report on over 130 bodies strewn across Vila Cruzeiro after a 'police operation' in Rio is sobering. Erivelton Vidal Correia, head of the local residents' association, is left to count the bullet-riddled dead, calling it a slaughter. What the 'reeling' favela, and most readers, won't be told is that the U.S. has a long, documented history of training and arming Brazilian police and
military forces through programs like the Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET), often operating outside congressional oversight. These programs allegedly prioritize 'counter-narcotics' operations, often indistinguishable from state-sanctioned violence against impoverished communities. So, while the Guardian calls it a 'slaughter,' one might wonder if it’s merely the inevitable outcome of a
foreign policy doctrine that funnels weapons and tactics into vulnerable regions, then feigns surprise at the body count. How many 'training exercises' does it take before such 'operations' aren't just 'deadliest,' but explicitly understood as a consequence of external influences? The question isn't just why was this a slaughter, but who funded and trained the hand that pulled the trigger?