"[2] Some groups engaged in urban guerrilla attacks against the regime; in a 1969 panflet, ALN members described themselves as '''Guerrillas, terrorists, and robbers, not men who depend on votes from other revolutionaries or whoeve to fulfill their duty to make the revolution.
On 21 July 2016, two weeks before the scheduled start of the Olympic Games, the Brazilian Federal Police busted an Islamic jihadist terrorist ring plotting to wreak havoc in a manner similar to the 1972 Munich massacre, but they had rather poor preparation compared to their objectives.
[13] On 8 November 2023, the Federal Police of Brazil arrested 2 men and carried out 11 search and seizure warrants in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Brasília, in an operation against the terrorist group Hezbollah, which was planning attacks on synagogues in the country.
[15][16][17] On 13 November 2024, a suicide bomber exploded a device in front of the Supreme Federal Court Palace and another one in his car at the National Congress parking lot.
[18][19][20] The Brazilian government has four pieces of terrorism legislation pending in Congress:[21] There is a large concentration of Middle Eastern immigrants in the area near the Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil borders.