A-Infos (en) Brazil, Capixaba, FAC: From the DOI-CODI to the Favela: The Genocidal State and Its New Mask (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Given the current situation, more than ever, it is necessary that we 
open our eyes and tear away the deceptive veil of "re-democratization" 
in the territory dominated by the Brazilian State! They sell us the 
farce that the military dictatorship ended, but we, from the streets and 
from social struggles, know the bloody truth: the monster merely changed 
its skin. Torture, arrests, kidnappings, assassinations, informing, 
censorship - the same instruments of terror that haunted Brazil under 
the uniformed gorillas continue to be state policy against the poor, the 
Black, the Indigenous, and the militants. The question that echoes from 
the favelas to the quilombos is: did the dictatorship really end, or did 
it just change its name?

They exchanged the basements of the DOI-CODI for the "Guarantee of Law 
and Order" operations in the peripheries. Torture left the barracks and 
installed itself in police stops, in the violations of autos de 
resistência (resistance records), in the daily humiliations of the 
prison system. The kidnapping of Black bodies follows an industrial 
logic, whether in police extermination or in mass incarceration that 
tears thousands from their communities. The method is the same: terror 
as a tool of social control and the annihilation of those whom the 
system marks as undesirable.

The apparatus of political persecution has been modernized and given a 
"legal" guise. Preventive arrests, coerced plea bargains, and the 
criminalization of social movements are the new facets of arbitrariness. 
The National Security Law, a cursed legacy of the dictatorship, is 
wielded against those who dare to criticize the powerful. They no longer 
need an AI-5 when they have a complicit Judiciary and a mercenary media 
that legitimizes the persecution, constructing narratives that turn 
militants into "terrorists" and protests into "acts of war."

Censorship did not die; it became digital, algorithmic, and structural. 
It disguises itself as "community policy" on social networks, as 
"fighting disinformation" that silences dissenting voices, and as media 
monopolization that keeps the people intoxicated by ignorance. The 
violence of the State is now broadcast live, but the same machine that 
displays it tries to justify it as "necessary." The Black genocide, the 
Indigenous ethnocide, and the repression of the poor are living proof 
that the Brazilian state maintains its authoritarian essence.

And the electoral farce? Swapping generals for professional politicians 
does not change the nature of the State. As long as power remains in the 
hands of economic elites, military corporations, and an exceptionalist 
Judiciary, democracy will remain a bad joke. The same system that 
financed the dictatorship remains in power, renewing its makeup with 
each election to preserve its privileges. The "New Republic" was nothing 
but a pact among elites to keep the people under yoke, now with more 
"sophisticated" methods of repression.

Therefore, the answer is clear: the dictatorship never ended; it merely 
recombined. It is now civil, military, judicial, and media-based. But 
our resistance also reinvents itself. We will not place our faith in 
saviors of the motherland or in the rotten institutions of this 
genocidal state. Our struggle is for the end of the police, the armies, 
the end of the prison system, the end of class-based justice, and for 
the true disintegration of this murderous State (and its brother, 
Capital). The memory of the tortured and the murdered shouts to us: they 
shall not pass! For the freedom of all and for the end of ALL 
dictatorships, direct action and struggle in the streets!

For anarchy.
Liberto Herrera.

https://federacaocapixaba.noblogs.org/post/2026/01/21/do-doi-codi-a-favela-o-estado-genocida-e-sua-nova-mascara/
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