Death, Tragedy and Hope in Rio de Janeiro
Death, Tragedy and Hope in Rio de Janeiro
The response to a politician's murder may be a turning point in finding a way out of Rio's crisis.
Brazilians have been very angry with their politicians, due to corruption scandals and economic crisis. Nevertheless, on March 15, thousands went to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to honor and mourn a young member of the City Council, shot dead with nine bullets, four of them in the head.
Marielle Franco was in the second year of her first political mandate, but had already made a name for herself as an outspoken critic of police violence, a human rights defender and an LGBT activist. The only black woman in the city council, she was born and raised in Maré, one of the more violent...
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