The trip of the governor of Minas Gerais, (Novo), and his entourage, cost R $ 197 thousand to the state’s coffers.
The values were obtained by Sheet by request via the Law of Access to Information (LAI) and the data of the Transparency Portal.
The costs involved airline tickets, the servers’ daily, the hosting of the governor and other expenses, such as hiring an interpreter and van rental in the country of Central America.
In addition to Zema, the Communication Secretaries, Bernardo Santos, and Justice and Public Security, Rogério Greco, as well as five state management servers participated in the trip.
The governor’s trip was justified at the time because the country led by expressly overthrowing the levels of with security.
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 in the country every two years.
Despite the speech, Zema’s entourage had only one member linked to public safety – Greco Secretary. Of the other 6 participants, 4 are linked to the governor’s communication.
Zema’s five -day trip yielded several publications on her social networks. He did not meet Bukele, but had agendas with vice president Felix Ulloa, and other authorities. The script also included local press interviews and communities visits.
Asked what were the returns of the amounts spent and the trip and to the mining population, the government of Minas did not respond.
Zema’s trip is inserted in the governor’s team’s strategy of clinging on her name to next year’s presidential elections. Supporter of (), the miner is one of the pre-candidates who try to surf in the electoral estate of the former president, who is ineligible until 2030 due to convictions in the Electoral Court.
In addition to criticism of the Government (PT) and highlights to numbers of its management, the theme of security appears among the most cited in Zema’s publications and speeches against one on the subject.
Also in May, the governor released a video months earlier by El Salvador’s president with conspiracy theories about the fight against crime. In the recording, Zema uses Bukele’s argument about the United States not having areas dominated by faction to criticize national security.
The governor, however, faces setbacks in the area of public safety in Minas. 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.
