Lula seeks his own security recipe to counter Brazilian right wing's tough-on-crime narrative

Tuesday, May 12th 2026 - 23:32 UTC

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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday unveiled in Brasília a public security plan worth around USD 2.25 billion aimed at weakening the finances of organized crime, regaining control of prisons, curbing arms trafficking, and improving homicide investigations, five months ahead of October's presidential election. The package is designed to give the government a distinct identity on one of the issues where public opinion sees the ruling party at its weakest against the right wing's punitive narrative. Read full article

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When justice system releases top notch known criminals, at the same time reckons those in prison still run their businesses infiltrated in all possible segments, unfortunately skepticism is the least everyone who's been afraid of being robbed, assaulted, kidnapped, or else since the leftists made that feeling worser every term they ruled and got reelected by offering easy money to our people so no one with minimum sense of reality (unless able to afford ways to escape/defending themselves) can deny it when +72% of population was forced to change habits due to to most recent years of insecurity (published by Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper during December 2025), and worsening.
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Public safety is, or should be, the first and foremost responsibility of government. By all indicators, that makes Brazilian government an abject failure. I wish that Lula's initiative will succeed, but am not at all assured that it is not yet another promise or political posturing. Time will tell. When the metal grates on residential windows come down and folks congregate again in front of their homes in the late afternoon, I'll believe it.
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