Guerra às drogas: uma análise sob o viés da Necropolítica

Abstract

The term necropolitics, authored by the Cameroonian philosopher, political theorist, historian and intellectual Achille Mbembe, refers to the set of actions, direct and indirect, taken by the State to exercise its right to kill. Killing, not just anyone, but a profile chosen by history and perpetuated by media alienation, wich is called a killable body. In Brazil, there are several exercises of necropower (the one that allows the perpetuation of necropolitics), but what is most effective in achieving the death result is the war on drugs. A war, in fact, against people, and black people, poor and marginalized. In its operationalization the war swallows several constitutional principles very important to political security, as well as suppresses fundamental rights and guarantees. Much is said about how violence and death are the result of war, and too little is said about how the state uses war to promote violence and death. In Brazil, the Drug Law is inadequate not only ethically, but in several aspects. There is a lot of insistence on the disrespect to the principle of social adequacy, which postulates that the Penal Law must be cohesive with the moment in which it’s being applied. Therefore, it’s vitally important to advance in the debate on the decriminalization of drugs use and trade, with the aim of achieving a democratic and free society. It’s more than imperative the need to fight for the end of the war, imprisonment and unbridled death.