The purpose of this article is to investigate how the repression against the drug retailer traffic is related to the notion of State Racism as formulated by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The repression against the traffic, specially directed to the retailer traffic with bases of support in slums, and not to the big traffickers and others facilitators, suggests that its principal function is to legitimate practices of violence and extermination directed to the poor population. This text discusses the periculosity stigma often vinculed to the poverty, with the objective of understand the reasons that made possible the legitimization and the trivialization of these practices.
drug traffic; state racism; biopolitical