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Flávio Bolsonaro Pushes Bukele-Style Prisons, Lula Rejects Terror Labels

6/20/2026

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Flávio Bolsonaro pledged to build five new maximum-security prisons in Brazil modeled on El Salvador’s Bukele system.
He unveiled the “Brasil sem medo” plan in São Paulo, outlining twelve measures and lowering criminal responsibility to sixteen, or fourteen for homicide, torture, rape and drug trafficking.
Flávio Bolsonaro seeks to label the PCC, Comando Vermelho and militias as narco-terrorist groups, a step Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration rejected.

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Flávio Bolsonaro pledged to build five new maximum-security prisons in Brazil modeled on El Salvador’s Bukele system.
He unveiled the “Brasil sem medo” plan in São Paulo, outlining twelve measures and lowering criminal responsibility to sixteen, or fourteen for homicide, torture, rape and drug trafficking.
Flávio Bolsonaro seeks to label the PCC, Comando Vermelho and militias as narco-terrorist groups, a step Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration rejected.