Just how deep do the connections between Brazil’s paramilitary “death squads” and the government run?
Posts Tagged ‘human rights’
The Rise of the Milícia State
Posted: 12th abril 2019 by Vanessa Barbara in New York TimesTags: death squads, Élcio Vieira de Queiroz, Escritório do Crime, feminismo, Flávio Bolsonaro, human rights, Jair Bolsonaro, Marielle Franco, milicias, Polícia Civil, Polícia Federal, Polícia Militar, racismo, Rio de Janeiro, Ronnie Lessa
Don’t Turn a Radical Activist’s Death Into a TV Melodrama
Posted: 5th abril 2018 by Vanessa Barbara in Artigos, New York TimesTags: democracy, favela, human rights, LGBT, Marielle Franco, Matheus Melo, military intervention, police brutality, Rio de Janeiro
The New York Times March 28, 2018 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It has been more than a month since Brazil’s Army took control of public security in the state of Rio de Janeiro, following a presidential decree to tackle crime. One of the most eloquent voices against that intervention had been […]
The most pitiful job in Brazil
Posted: 17th julho 2017 by Vanessa Barbara in New York Times, ReportagensTags: Érico Verissimo, human rights, special rapporteurs, UN, United Nations
The New York Times July 12, 2017 by Vanessa Barbara Contributing Op-Ed Writer Leer en español SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Until recently, I thought that being a writer was the most pitiful profession ever, especially in Brazil. Nobody reads our books, and we can easily spend an entire life just railing against the same things again and again. In […]
