Debate1st round · November 26, 2025· Metropoles

"PRECISAMOS CONSTRUIR UMA ALCATRAZ BRASILEIRA" | Romeu Zema no Metrópoles

Debate with Romeu Zema · 100 statements transcribed and classified · about public safety and order, judiciary, social policy, monetary policy. Click a statement to hear that moment in the video.

"PRECISAMOS CONSTRUIR UMA ALCATRAZ BRASILEIRA" | Romeu Zema no Metrópoles

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100
Participants
1
Stances against
3
Stances in favor
63

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100 statements
  1. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: reduce homicides in the country

    "Well, Capelli, Brazil, unfortunately, has been the world champion in homicides for decades."
  2. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: combat organized crime and strengthen public security

    "And a government that talks so much about the social seems to me to be not at all involved in wanting to improve this issue."
  3. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: coordinate state and federal actions to combat organized crime

    "We need to mobilize the State — when I say State, it's the municipality, it's the state government, it's the federal government — against these factions."
  4. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: increase penalties for violent crimes

    "This increase in penalties is a very big step forward."
  5. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: require full enforcement of sentences and restrict benefits for prisoners

    "Ending any kind of privilege, like temporary leave, sentence reduction, etc."
  6. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: classify PCC and CV as terrorist organizations

    "I would like the organizations to be classified as terrorists."
  7. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: establish international cooperation to combat organized crime

    "I think Brazil even needs international cooperation to combat them."
  8. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: increase penalties for violent crimes

    "What this government wants, in my view, is to eliminate any aggravation of penalty, to do nothing with regard to crime."
  9. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: support police operations confronting organized crime

    "In my opinion, that was an efficient police operation."
  10. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: automatically arrest anyone who breaks an electronic ankle monitor

    "One of them: whoever removes their electronic ankle monitor will have their arrest automatically ordered."
  11. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: keep criminals detained

    "Those with more than three police records for the same offense should not be released at the custody hearing."
  12. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: guarantee freedom of approach and action for police officers

    "And the third point, also very simple, is that the police officer have freedom to carry out stops."
  13. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: create and strengthen interstate consortia for cooperation in public security

    "And the Consortium for Peace, as you asked, is based on that COSUD working group, and we are inviting other governors, especially those from the right, who want to join."
  14. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: authorize integrated operations of foreign forces in Brazilian territory to combat criminal organizations

    "Would you allow, for example, the United States to conduct integrated operations in Brazil to fight Comando Vermelho and the PCC?"
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  15. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: allow international intelligence cooperation and provision of equipment to combat drug trafficking

    "I say this because... After the operation in Rio de Janeiro, the United States Drug Enforcement Department sent a letter to the Rio de Janeiro Secretary of Public Security, Vitor dos Santos, making themselves available to, quote, do whatever is necessary to combat drug trafficking."
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  16. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: allow international intelligence cooperation and provision of equipment to combat drug trafficking

    "This gave rise to many questions — what would this action be, anyway."
    Public Safety and Order
  17. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: authorize integrated operations of foreign forces in Brazilian territory to combat criminal organizations

    "If elected president, would you like to have U.S. operational forces combating drug trafficking here in Brazil?"
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  18. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: establish international cooperation to combat organized crime

    "Now, if there is often a humanitarian tragedy and there is international aid — Brazil itself has gone to help, I've already sent firefighters to Central America, to Africa, in several natural disasters — why not have that international and American assistance as well to combat something?"
  19. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: combat organized crime

    "Now here in Brazil, we are having a natural tragedy every day."
  20. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: combat organized crime

    "It's 100, 120 Brazilians who lose their lives daily."
  21. Romeu Zema

    Against

    About: authorize international cooperation in combating organized crime

    "And we will not refuse that help, whether from Germany, the United States, Mexico, or whoever it may be."
  22. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: authorize international cooperation in combating organized crime

    "If it's to contribute to fighting organized crime, it will be welcome."
  23. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: authorize integrated operations of foreign forces in Brazilian territory to combat criminal organizations

    "For example, actions by the United States on the ground?"
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  24. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: limit international cooperation to intelligence sharing and provision of equipment

    "I see it as much more a matter of intelligence and equipment, also because our military police know their territories far better, they know much more how things work here."
  25. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: provide equipment and technology to Brazilian security forces

    "Many things could include that cooperation to contribute to combating organized crime."
  26. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: classify PCC and CV as terrorist organizations

    "An interesting point is that by classifying these drug trafficking organizations as terrorists, faction members of Comando Vermelho, IPCC, who were arrested in the United States, could be sent to the Secote prison in El Salvador, which is designated exclusively for terrorists."
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  27. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: sign agreements to transfer gang members to maximum-security prisons abroad

    "So, we could make an agreement, since it's an international agreement, with El Salvador, send the faction members from here to the Secote, there in El Salvador."
  28. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: sign agreements to transfer gang members to maximum-security prisons abroad

    "Have you thought that, fine, these criminals wouldn't even stay in Brazil, right — being transferred to a maximum-security prison in a country that is very far away, where they wouldn't even have a cell phone signal from here."
  29. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: increase rigor in combating crime and incarcerating criminals

    "An example of a country that, within the space of three years, managed to reduce homicides by 99%."
  30. Romeu Zema

    Neutral

    About: classify criminal factions as terrorist organizations and deploy federal forces

    "They built the Secote, changed the law, every faction member, every criminal organization was equated with terrorists, and everyone is imprisoned."
  31. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: adopt security measures modeled on El Salvador

    "I spoke there, during the three days I was there, with more than 50 people."
  32. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: adopt crime-fighting practices inspired by successful cases abroad

    "So you can see that there are things that work, but it seems the media here in Brazil doesn't much like to show those things that succeed against criminality."
  33. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: build maximum-security prisons

    "Well, if that's not possible, I think we would have to build at least one Secote in the middle of the Amazon rainforest."
  34. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: classify members of criminal organizations as terrorists

    "And to say 'terrorist,' 'member of a criminal organization'—they will now stay here, in this Brazilian Secote here, with no access to anything, totally isolated."
  35. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: build maximum-security prisons

    "First, isolated, with only a landing strip, and heavily armed against any unauthorized aircraft that might arrive there."
  36. Romeu Zema

    For

    About: build maximum-security prisons

    "And anyone who tried to escape certainly would not survive in the forest."
  37. Desconhecido

    For

    About: implement social and inclusion policies in vulnerable communities to prevent crime

    "we have to say, Bernardo, it's like this: it's not enough just for the police to go in with rifles and carry out operations like the one they did in Rio de Janeiro."
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  38. Desconhecido

    For

    About: implement social and inclusion policies in vulnerable communities to prevent crime

    "There has to be public policy within those communities."
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  39. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: implement social and inclusion policies in vulnerable communities to prevent crime

    "When there were the pacifying police units in Rio de Janeiro, during Sérgio Cabral's government, the criminals were expelled from those hills, from those favelas, but there was no public policy for the people."
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  40. Desconhecido

    For

    About: invest in public programs and infrastructure even in impoverished areas

    "To offer quality services to these people who need them, who are in these poorer areas."
    Social PolicyView this statement

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