This glossary examines the security vocabulary that the United States has projected into Brazil's 2026 presidential election — narcoterrorism, Foreign Terrorist Organization, cartel, hemispheric threat — and tests, term by term, whether each one actually traveled from Washington or arrived by some other route.
While inaugurating a new administration under Lula da Silva, the country attempts to examine its racialized violence and COVID policies over the last years.
Security in Context's Roosbelinda Cárdenas interviews scholar Ana Barreto about Brazil's general elections, the results of which were finalized on October 30th, 2022.