Rio Megaoperation’s Impact Questioned as Federal Push Extends to Bahia

Overview

• Rio’s PM intelligence subsecretary told Congress the raid had an 'ínfimo' effect on degrading the Comando Vermelho, describing gains as chiefly symbolic despite 121 deaths and 113 arrests.
• The Federal Police’s intelligence chief challenged labeling the action a success given four police funerals and urged results that change conditions for residents rather than repeat large incursions.
• National public security secretary Mário Sarrubbo said dismantling factions requires entering, staying and saturating territory, criticized treating facções as terrorists, and previewed a national arms‑trafficking enforcement network.
• Five former justice ministers and jurists urged Lula to create a Special Secretariat in the Presidency to coordinate police, intelligence and financial investigations, citing the raid’s high lethality and strategic limits.
• A separate PF‑led action in Caraíva, Bahia targeted a Comando Vermelho cell, left five suspects dead and seized rifles, a submachine gun, pistols and a grenade, signaling operations spreading beyond Rio.