Priscila Villela is a professor of International Relations at PUC-SP and deputy coordinator of both the Center for Studies on Drugs and International Relations (NEDRI) and the Center for Transnational Security Studies (NETS).
Priscila can be reached at pvillela@pucsp.br.
Paulo J. R. Pereira is an associate professor of International Relations at PUC-SP, a researcher at INCT-INEU, and the coordinator of the Center for Studies on Drugs and International Relations (NEDRI).
Paulo can be reached at pjreispereira@gmail.com.
The large-scale operation in Rio de Janeiro carried out on October 28, which has already left at least 121 people dead and once again laid bare the logic of war applied to poverty, should not be understood solely as a local public-security issue.
It is part of a global control...