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Moving from one point to another in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, in the north-east of Brazil, has become an almost impossible mission from the beginning of the year. The incendiary attacks on buses left the decimated public transport system and quintupled the price of a Uber race. The streets are invaded by garbage, which was not picked up after the collection trucks were attacked. And businesses are banned from opening, under threat of reprisals from organized crime. This chaos is the result of attacks orchestrated by criminal gangs trying to paralyze the dispersion of their leaders imprisoned by federal principals (to weaken groups). This is the first security crisis of the new government, led by Jair Bolsonaro and the judge accompanying him at the head of the Ministry of Justice, Sérgio Moro.
The criminals brought chaos to Fortaleza, the capital, and to 46 other cities in the State of Ceará with 187 attacks counted. "In my neighborhood (the criminals) went to the shops saying they had to close, those who tried to open saw that they were crossing the streets to see if anyone had opened, they say everyone has to stay at home, if they do not burn everything" , tells a neighbor of Caucaia, the second city of the state.
The attacks are increasingly bold – the criminals have flown two viaducts and a bridge with explosives – and they have not even stopped with the sending of 400 police officers to a federal security corps, ordered by Moro, who exposes the challenge that the escalation of the factions of Brazil imposes the security policy of the South American giant.
A challenge that concerns the federal government and the government of the state, in the hands of the party of opposition workers, the goal of every kind of accusation by the new president and his followers.
Ceará lives an unprecedented situation for the time being. The messages exchanged by the criminal gang detainees suggest that, this time, they have reached an agreement between them. Stop attacking and attacking a specific goal together: the state. And the inefficiency in the response to organized crime left this time an entire hostage. So far, 358 people have been arrested, according to the government.
The terror imposed by the factions has transformed the lives of the inhabitants of Ceará into chaos and businesses have been forced to close in the middle of summer, a key moment to tackle the economic crisis.
Nothing indicates that the attacks will cease shortly. Governor Camilo Santana of the PT ensures that he will not step back in his decision to disperse the leaders of the gangs imprisoned in order to weaken their structures. Twenty-one leaders have been transferred to prisons outside the state thanks to an agreement between Ceará and the Ministry of Justice.
With nearly 30,000 inmates, more than half in temporary prison, the prison population is a stone in the state shoe. It has practically doubled in six years, along with the geometric increase in crime rates. And it is from prisons that most of the assassination orders that made Fortaleza last year in the second most violent city of Brazil and the seventh of the world come. For years organized crime, divided into groups, co-opted newcomers and directed violence in the streets.
Now, for the first time, the State – in the figure of the newly appointed prison administration secretary, Luís Mauro Albuquerque – fights organized crime and says with all the letters that it does not recognize the factions.
The governor emphasizes that "the repression of criminals will continue", but the situation has not been mitigated even with the arrival of the hundred military policemen that the government of Bahia has sent as reinforcement, with the hasty convocation of authorized security agents in oppositions or with the arrival of federal troops. "I have already urged security summits to devote all the necessary efforts, gang leaders have been identified and transfers to federal prisons are under way, there will be no tolerance for crime," he said. petista Santana in a note on Facebook, the medium that uses more to communicate with the population during the crisis.
Governor Santana harshly criticizes his party because, according to him, he has not adequately discussed the issue of public security either in the last presidential elections or during the efforts of former presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff. "Brazil has been dominated by criminal gangs because of the omission of governments, even the government chaired by my party has been ignored," he accused this week in an interview with Bandnews. Although the government says it has invested 1,800 million reais [más de 422 millones de euros] only between public security between 2015 and 2018, the state has suffered an increase in crime for years with strategies criticized by specialists.
It is not yet known how long the National Force agents will remain in Ceará or whether the state government will require additional police reinforcements. But the situation in Ceará leaves open the challenge faced by the still unclear project of Public Safety in the management of Bolsonaro. Now there is the fear that the wave of factional threats will spread through other Brazilian states, increasingly hostage to violent groups.
The few buses that circulate go with the police escort. "We are hostages of that expectation.There is nothing to do, because who will pay 100 reais [algo más de 23 euros] for a career in Uber? It remains only to wait and be able to catch a crowded bus. Normally it's ugly, but now it's horrible, "says caregiver Elisa Dantas.
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