Abstract
This article critically interrogates the epidemic of death squad murders in Salvador as a phenomenon uniquely imbued with multiple layers of racialized, gendered, sexed, and classed meaning, simultaneously territorialized as a continuous part of the landscape of inequality and black suffering in Brazil and transnationally and cross-temporally defined by its connections with the geopolitical landscape of torture, the United States' war on terror, and legacies of colonialism and slavery in the Americas. The article examines resonances between death squad murders in Bahia, the transnational exchange of torture practices between the United States and Latin America, the contemporary use of torture against “terrorist” bodies by the United States (exemplified by Abu Ghraib), and the legacy of anti-black lynching in the United States. Through this discussion, the article suggests that the geography of death in Brazil has everything to do with transnational necropolitics that target the black/queer/terrorist/female/other body.
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