Murilo Oliveira
Brazil, August 30, 2021.
What can be reported of the facts that occurred that morning in Araçatuba is that it is clearly an act of terrorism, with a view to frightening the population, in a context where the President of the Republic claimed a few days ago that the population should buy rifles and not beans. What I mean by this is that Brazil has ever* had a very well-armed criminality in Brazil that is capable of frightening the population of entire cities, but perhaps for the first time we began to flirt with a scenario of civil war, still in a context of psychological and damage to property, stimulated by both sides to some extent, and quite serious in relation to what it appears to be and in relation to what these groups start to send signals to the civilian population that has nothing to do with it.
In the same recent period, we observed a secretary of state penitentiary administration acting in coordination with a criminal faction, and that is the question, paramilitary groups like the one that acted this morning in Araçatuba have always had incestuous relations with the State, and in the course of events and provocations, take on political dimensions that not only can but should be defined as terrorism in the proper sense, propagation of fear among the civilian population for ideological purposes, in the sense of affirming political positions of this or that. It is necessary to fight this spiral of fear, everything points to our country’s institutions being thrown in the trash, the constitutional order being replaced by a scenario of civil war, or even urban guerrilla as they have been called the “new bandit” for some time and now come up with the irony of a national disaster of great proportions.
Again, both sides have some share of the blame for this, facilitating access to weapons comes at a price, as well as not discerning institutional political struggle from crime. Demonstrations that close the door to the institutional political struggle cannot be called through formal and correct ways, as access to weapons cannot be facilitated under any circumstances, but neither can one believe that the option for crime and intimidation of the population is a form of political action, when it is pure and simple terrorism.
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