Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate and leading challenger to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of October's elections, has unveiled a sweeping law-and-order platform after meeting El Salvador's justice and public security minister, Gustavo Villatoro, in São Paulo. The plan calls for creating 500,000 new prison places over four years, building five maximum-security federal prisons in a complex he has branded "Treva," and designating Brazil's two dominant criminal organisations — the Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho — as narcoterrorist groups, a classification Washington itself applied in May. The announcement signals Bolsonaro's intent to import the hardline model of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, whose mass-incarceration campaign has drawn both international praise for driving down homicides and sharp criticism from human rights groups for documented arbitrary detentions and deaths in custody — concerns the candidate declined to address; the pitch carries particular resonance in Brazil, which already holds the world's third-largest prison population and where public safety ranks as the top electoral concern for 35% of voters.