Brazil’s World Cup 2014: Private Security “Made in the USA”
As the World Cup nears…the American company Academi, formerly Blackwater, carried out training of Brazilian military personnel and federal police…“It is a logic of commercialization, of privatization, and a move toward the use of third-party security,” affirms… [a]…professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Sao Paulo. The industry that capitalized on the concept of “terrorism” has increased the use of “security” as a market platform...Academi offers on its…website…assistance to foreign militaries…fight against transnational terrorism and…interception of weapons of mass destruction…The enemy indicated by the media, governments, and the police are social movements...