Record 63,880 people murdered in Brazil in 2017

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Piri Tomas said:
Brazil is a society in chaos. Police are violent/corrupt and high levels of inequality continued to persist even after surging commodities prices helped boost its economy up almost 10 years ago. Now they're in a recession, so all of the social issues have been exacerbated.

The bulk of those murders are taking place in the North/Northeast.

As fukked up as things are here in the U.S., at least we have a somewhat politicized population that engages and holds institutions accountable every now and then. In Brazil people basically just accept the status quo, robberies, shootings, rape, anarchy and justify with a fatalistic "somos um pais do terceiro mundo, entao nao se pode esperar mais"-- "we're a third world country, what do you expect"
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There is racist right wing militias in Brazil that has ties to the military and police that are waging war with the flavela gangs. They also kill social justic activist,leftist,pro black activist. If the Brazilian Donald Trump Jair Balonsonaro who is ex military elected president I expect the murder rate to double to 125,000
Word to @Cynic our Afro Brazilian breh who explained this on another thread
Cynic said:
Milícia tem mais poder que tráfico no RJ, diz professor

That article is in portuguese but it's an important and revealing article/interview with José Cláudio Souza Alves, a Rio professor who has studied the history of Rio's favelas and poor areas for 25 years. It centers on the militias who are in increasing control of those areas and in this context looks at Marielle's assassination.

He points out that the militias were set up as death squads in the 1970's under the military dictatorship. Their members were drawn from the state, from cops, military police, firemen and prison guards. They became increasingly autonomous of direct control but increasingly integrated into Rio's business and political machinery. They operate as large and very profitable gangs, still basically assassination squads but also running every type of business imaginable and controlling areas which have 2 million inhabitants. They control landfill, water and gas supplies, land sales (including on protected land where they sell lots foe illegal building) and of course drugs. They have elected representatives and control local legislatures, something that the favela gangs have never been able to achieve.

Recent cop operations in the favelas have been a cover for the militias to seize control and this has let to warfare and 150% spike in killings. They now outnumber, outgun and outfinance the favela gangs and there tendency to exterminate all opposition has forced some gangs into temporary alliances with them. Marielle was killed for a very simple reason, she threatened the position and interests of the militias who operate in and around the favelas, dominate the cocaine trade in some places, own businesses and who work closely in league with the police.


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