The governor of Minas Gerais, (Novo), published on Thursday (22) a video in which he repeats a speech released two months ago by the president of, with conspiracy theories about the fight against crime.
The speech of El Salvador’s agent went viral among the right -wing profiles by stating that Latin American countries, such as Brazil, have areas dominated by factions because they have members infiltrated the governments.
Neither Bukele nor Zema indicated evidence of the participation of people linked to criminal organizations in the country’s government structures.
Considered a reference for right-wing sectors, saving after reducing the rates of violence in your country through hard-line combat policies.
The improvement in indicators, however, came amid a mass incarceration operation that imprisons many innocents, according to human rights organizations. The state of exception is renewed every month in the country every two years.
In Zema’s video, the governor uses Bukele’s same example about the United States not having an area dominated by faction to criticize national security.
“In Brazil, criminals are often within the government. That is why the Brazilian state has decided not to combat the crime,” says the governor, in front of a black background.
The initiative to record the video occurs before a meeting that should happen next week between Zema and Bukele, as the Sheet.
In an attempt to cling his name to next year’s presidential dispute, the miner has hired a new marketer and has used social networks to highlight numbers of his management and, especially,.
Zema supported Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the last election and attended demonstrations of support for the former president, as promoted in April in Sao Paulo.
By repeating Bukele’s row-line discourse on security, the governor seeks to position himself in a theme that has increasingly concerned the Brazilian population.
Survey showed that more than half of the Brazilian population (58%) states that crime has increased in its city in the last 12 months.
The governor faces setbacks in the area of public safety in Minas Gerais. In recent years, members of factions from Rio de Janeiro have been settled in the state and disputed territories with local criminals.
This is the case of TCP (Third Pure Command), which has occupied for years a community of Belo Horizonte. Last November, a joint security for the security forces said it had demobilized the organization by detaining 14 suspects.
In the metropolitan region of the capital of Minas Gerais, residents publish in social networks scenes of war between rival factions.
In addition, Zema has been much questioned by representatives of security forces in the state, who complain about the lack of salary replacement in recent years.
This was one of the reasons for the landing, this year, of the PL of the Allied base in the Legislative Assembly.
Minas Gerais was in 2023 the fourth state with fewer deaths registered every 100,000 inhabitants, according to the latest, from IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research).
The miners, however, saw a 1.2% increase in this indicator compared to 2022.
