This article analyzes the police operations that took place in Rio de Janeiro on October 28, 2025, in which 121 people died. The text approaches four different plans to the investigation: the global, regional, national, and operational levels. The global level examines the process of reorganizing the international order and the redefinition of security boundaries, where militarization and surveillance emerge as the preferred course of action. At the regional level, Latin America finds itself at the core of geopolitical disputes over spheres of influence and security, by including the United States, supported by its new National Security Strategy. In turn, at the national level, Brazil is undergoing security and governance policies, which only reinforce relationships of fear and control, as a legacy of a past-present. Furthermore, beyond the introduction and conclusion, the operational level is examined, where high-impact actions mobilize war rhetoric, by revealing the dynamics of action by security forces and organized crime. Finally, the question guiding this piece of research is: How do these four axes intertwine to establish patterns of violence? Likewise, how is a strategy of resistance developed, and how can more democratic public policies be formulated in Rio de Janeiro?
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