Western Media Discovers Local Police Violence, Calls it 'Raid'
CBS News reports a mother's horrific claims of her son's decapitation during a Brazilian police 'raid' that killed over 100, dutifully framing it as a local drug bust gone wrong. What gets lost in the narrative is decades of U.S. and Israeli training for precisely these types of operations. From the 'War on Drugs' to 'counternarcotics' programs, American military aid and doctrine have directly
influenced the militarization of police forces in Latin America, transforming them into brutal, occupying armies within their own disadvantaged communities. This isn't just a 'raid'; it's the predictable outcome of state-sanctioned violence. One might wonder if the 'War on Drugs' abroad, much like its domestic counterpart, serves more to control populations and justify military budgets than to
actually curb drug use. The media's choice to focus on individual atrocity, while tragic, sidesteps the systemic foreign policy architects who helped build these killer institutions. Convenient how Washington-funded violence is always 'local' when it backfires.