[www-features] [Proposal] Daily routine of violence in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro will increase with Pan American Games

[Bradley Stuart]

Hi pina and all,

I posted this version:
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorkPad

with this image:
http://brasil.indymedia.org/images/2007/06/385806.jpg

sincerely,
bradley

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On Jul 2, 2007, at 12:52 PM, pina at riseup.net wrote:

>
> Hi everyone, below an feature about the situation of slums and poor
> communities of Rio de Janeiro. The text needs to be revised, if anyone
> could do it i would appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> pina
>
> ==============================================================
>
>
> [tittle]
>
> Daily routine of violence in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro will
> increase with Pan American Games
>
> [Abstract]
>
> <p>On June 13th Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro will begin. Since
> last year a big media show was put together around the event, such  
> as the
> election of the mascot's name of the Games and daily segments in  
> every TV
> show in Brazil.</p>
>
> </p>But quite on the contrary of what has been promoted, the Pan  
> American
> Games had not brought only parties and sport to the city. The problems
> regarding the realization of the Pan are countless and they are more
> connected to the life of the residents of the slums and poor  
> communities
> of the city than to the delay of the infra structure works.</p>
>
> </p>The security has been the most important issue, not only for the
> organizers of the event, but mainly for those who has long- 
> suffering with
> the billionaire investments: the slum's residents. Since the  
> beginning of
> the year, the operations of the Military Police has increased, with  
> the
> support of the National Security Force, that came specially for the  
> Games.
> An example - not the only one, but the one that has been most  
> publicized
> by the media, is the case of the German Complex (see photographs <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/06/385800.shtml>I | <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/06/385962.shtml>II | <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/06/386626.shtml>III</a>),
> where classes on local schools of the area were shut down and more  
> than 20
> persons already died. On June 27 a police operation executed 19  
> people in
> the area, the police had order not to make any prisioners. But on the
> contrary of what the corporate media has been saying, the police  
> blockades
> of the area does not intimidate the traffic, and <a
> href=http://midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/06/385962.shtml>"without
> prisons or apprehensions of weapons or drugs, so far the only thing
> achieved were local victms of 'lost bullets'".</a></p>
>
>
> <p><strong>Releated Article:</strong> Police executed 19 people in  
> German
> Complex and State government approves action - in <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/en/blue/ 
> 2007/06/387133.shtml>English</a>
> and <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/es/blue/ 
> 2007/06/387130.shtml>Spanish</a></p>
>
> <p><strong>Photos:</strong> <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue//2007/06/386274.shtml>G8
> Denounces of the Pan American Games</a> | <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/06/385962.shtml>Police
> blockades don't intimidate traffic but punishes local comminities</ 
> a> | <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/06/385800.shtml>Routine
> of Violence in the German Complex</a> | <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/06/386626.shtml>Daily
> routine in the German Complex</a></p>
>
> <p>For more information check out <strong><a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org>Indymedia Brasil</a></ 
> strong></p>
>
>
> [Read More]
>
> <p>In order to build the stadiums and the Olympic villages, poor
> communities were evicted without no kind of compensation or  
> guarantee of
> dwelling in another place. Besides that the work condition in the
> construction were extremelly bad which generated the <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/03/374726.shtml>stoping
> of the work and an indicative of strike</a> in on of the stadium (João
> Havelange), in Engenho Novo district.</p>
>
> <p>The costs of the event was miscalculated and were ten times more  
> than
> the one initially predicted. In February, with the dalyed work, that
> expense was estimated around 1,5 billion reais. But in order to make
> things go fast, this amount certaingrew. Today only in the security  
> area
> the costs are calculated around 562 millions reais.</p>
>
> <p>Sérgio Cabral, State Governer, despite of his committmet to put  
> an end
> to Caveirão - a vehicle used by the police to enter the slums - not  
> only
> did not fulfill as announced but purchased others vehicles and  
> request the
> presence of the Army during the Games. Not pleased with this, Cabral
> traveled to Colombia, a country known by violation of human rights, to
> learn how they fight drug traffic in Bogota.</p>
>
> <p>The Military Police operations far from beeing diminishing the  
> drug and
> weapons trafficking, had only caused terror and deaths. Datas from the
> Public Security Institute of Rio de Janeiro shown exctally that,  
> while the
> number of drugs apprehensions and weapons diminished, the number of  
> dead
> polices and police victms increased. Even the number of prisons
> diminished. This can indicate that the police operations have  
> orders to
> kill and not to make prisioners.</p>
>
> <p>Social movements as the <a
> href=http://www.caveiraonao.org/portal/>Campaign Against the  
> Caveirão</a>
> and the <a href=http://www.redecontraviolencia.org/>Network of  
> Communities
> and Movements Against the Violence</a> are making sure that the
> extermination politics promoted by the government don't be forget. In
> March, an Assemlby against the Caveirão took place, involving more
> movements and groups. The Assemlby is already showing positives  
> results,
> with activities of the communication commission, that is producing  
> a video
> and vignettes for community and free radios, and the enlargement of  
> the
> Campaign trying to get more people involve.</p>
>
> <p>The Network Against the Violence produce a <a
> href=http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/ 
> 2007/05/383323.shtml>document</a>
> about the politics of public security in the Pan American Games. This
> document was also release in Europe, during the G8 meeting (see  
> pictures).
> After the protests, two representetives of the social movements  
> remain in
> Europe, divulging the document and carrying out activities  
> denouncing the
> extermination police and terror against the poor comunities in Rio de
> Janeiro.</p>
>
> <p>As if the situation wasn't tragic enough, during the Games, Rio de
> Janeiro will be on State of Exception. That means that no public
> manifestation will be alowed without the approval of the Brazilian
> Intelligence Agency (Abin) and of the Senasp (National Office of Home
> Security). Besides that, secret agents of several countries  
> (including the
> CIA) will be assistencing in this task. The own Abin affirmed that
> "professional" protest organizers can be monitored during the whole  
> period
> of the event.</p>
>
> <p>President Lula affirmed that the model applied in Rio de Janeiro  
> can
> serve as a model to be applied in other cities of Brazil. Social  
> movements
> are asking to the civil sociaty not to let this model spreed, and  
> revert
> the scenery that is being installed in Rio.</p>
>
>
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