Rio 'Police Raids' Keep Coming, So Does US Aid
The BBC's somber account from a Rio favela details a photographer witnessing 'bodies just kept coming,' after a police 'operation' left over 120 dead. This isn't an isolated incident; it's a recurring feature of Brazilian state policy, notoriously escalated under leaders like Bolsonaro, who received significant US diplomatic backing. The US has historically provided extensive training and support
to Latin American security forces, often under the guise of 'anti-drug' or 'anti-crime' initiatives, despite well-documented human rights abuses by those forces. One might wonder if the bodies 'just kept coming' because the 'raids' are designed for maximum impact, not surgical precision. While Western media grapples with the 'tragedy' of these events, they rarely connect the dots to the very real
impact of foreign policy decisions – or the rhetoric that justifies them. The terminology 'police raid' sanitizes what amounts to mass killings in impoverished, marginalized communities. It's the same cynical framing that transforms bombing homes in Gaza into 'precision strikes' against 'terror infrastructure.' How many times must residents literally carry their dead before we question the
'security' narrative?