Only two years after the 2016 Olympics closed in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã stadium, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the national elections with a campaign rooted in authoritarian and hateful discourse against minorities and praising the nation’s military past. Much has been written about the roots of Bolsonaro’s success and his strong support in the Brazilian security apparatus. This chapter brings a new angle to this discussion and argues that the ways in which the security schemes for Brazil’s mega-event decade were organized laid the ground for a successful Bolsonaro campaign and government. In the years prior to the 2014 World Cup, the Brazilian state implemented an integrated command and control system to develop a managerial-militarized model for organizing public security and the technological system built for the mega-events. The chapter explores how this approach enforced a military urbanism, a New Public Management, and benchmarking strategies that still mark Brazil’s public security sector. It argues that the heavy influence of military strategies intermingled with new neoliberal economic thinking that laid the ground for a successful authoritarian candidate like Bolsonaro who based his government upon these exact values.