the last donut of the night
25th November 2010, 19:11
From the PSTU (Partido Socialista dos Trabalhadores Unificado, or Unified Socialist Workers' Party), a genuinely revolutionary party in Brazil. This is their analysis of the current events in Rio de Janeiro, where the Brazilian state is invading and occupying Manguinhos and the Complexo do Alemao favelas. This is done under the pretense of defeating and ending drug traficking and the violence that stems from it. However, the reality is much more sinister.
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The State of Rio de Janeiro is experiencing a civil war, a state of siege, which exposes the incompetence and demagogy reelected governor Sergio Cabral (PMDB) and his subordinates. To win the election widely reported that the city and state were pacified, they had through Units Pacification Police (UPP) finished with the traffic and hence the violence.
Right now the civilian police helicopters and military police flew over the city and the community of Complexo de Manguinhos and the German, trying to find the culprits for this situation. Schools are suspending classes and workers are returning early to their homes. In the center of town people interrupt their activities sooner. At present, buses are being burned, and roads blocked by drug dealers, vehicles and looting immediately after firing. In the last few days. more than 40 vehicles, including buses and cars, were burned, dozens of roadblocks, to then be charged the service to motorists.
In many parts of the state, the governor ally of Lula, try blitz by inhibiting the action of the traffickers, all officers who exercised internal functions, doctors, mechanics, clerks, all were summoned to serve on city streets as if the problem violence could be resolved in an act of war. All the measures so far taken by the state security sector have failed, and what prevails is the panic, insecurity and lack of a policy that actually confronts the violence and insecurity.
Right now the press, particularly the Globo network, takes the situation to increase their audience, touting the chaos that is city and state, but does not say that all this is explained on the one hand, depending on who lives a misery part of the population, which is condemned to live in the hills of the city in shacks with no jobs and paltry wages, repressed by fascist police and corrupt Sergio Cabral, the trafficking or the militia. Moreover, the connivance of the state to big business, which has links with international drug trafficking and weapons. These gentlemen are caught when they claim that they are collectors of firearms.
At this time the Security Secretary, José Maria Beltrame, said those who pass in front of the state will be hit. The police reflect the state orders and say they will die a lot of people. Thirteen people have died, demonstrating what is the policy of these gentlemen fascists. Go to exterminate the poor and blacks and young people will say they are drug dealers. A good example that we should not trust these rulers was the installation of the UPP in the area of Tijuca, Morro do Borel, Ant, White House Jacks, Morro da Liberdade, Turano, Willow, all with great presence of trafficking, with hundreds of dealers heavily armed, were occupied after government deal with the traffickers, which ensured the exit of all, with their weapons of war, before the occupation.
A shame. This maneuver the governor and all their allies was celebrated by Cabral, Lula, Dilma, and his security secretary, who reported that they had largely finished with the traffic and pacified the city and state without firing a shot. They said the smugglers fled scared. With this speech won the October elections. Who does not remember the candidate Dilma saying on television that would export these examples from Rio to the rest of the country? Actually what happened was a big deal of the state with the traffickers, who have moved to other parts of the city and state, preparing the area of Tijuca and the South Zone to receive tourists and investment from the World Cup and for the Olympics.
The governor and his allies go to work by armored car, escorted by security, by helicopter, while we workers are vulnerable on the buses, which are often being torched. The government will use this situation to criminalize poverty; they are preparing a real killing in the poorest regions. The military police is being prepared for the invasion of the German Complex and Manguinhos. The workers and youth will bear the brunt of this operation, all under the government's pretext of attacking the traffickers. We know how this policy will end. If you're black and poor, it's a deal of shooting and then asking for the police.
A socialist program to address violence
We find that the UPPs are not the solution. It is impossible to live under an occupation. All measures -- a farce of the State --, the courses with the trucks of the SENAC in communities (for very few people) to teach sewing and hairdressing training and basic computer skills, do not guarantee what is essential. People have to community and country for a good job with decent pay. We therefore propose that the minimum wage immediately double. We propose the construction of many places with good schools and education professionals with a decent salary, not the wage of 700 reais a shame that the state pays the teacher. Advocate the construction of good hospitals so that workers do not die because lack of beds in emergencies. We demand that the governor immediately stop the demolition of IASERJ, with the closing of Pedro II, hospitals that are fundamental. We want decent entertainment, access to culture, not being hidden for tourists' eyes. We want decent housing and infrastructure. There are those responsible for the actions that are happening in the city and state: the governor, the mayors and the federal government that did much fanfare in the elections and now leave us in this situation.
We will not end the violence and the trafficking without the decriminalization of drugs and without putting in jail the big businessmen who traffic in weapons and drugs, without the confiscation of their property. We will end up with violence if we do not have decent jobs for our families. We need to dissolve the police and a police building linked to the population and mainly controlled by it, with elections for the command and for the delegates with a mandate revocable. We demand an end to the extermination of the poor and black. Not the invasion and extermination of community residents.
EDIT: sorry for the shitty translation, I was in a rush.
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The State of Rio de Janeiro is experiencing a civil war, a state of siege, which exposes the incompetence and demagogy reelected governor Sergio Cabral (PMDB) and his subordinates. To win the election widely reported that the city and state were pacified, they had through Units Pacification Police (UPP) finished with the traffic and hence the violence.
Right now the civilian police helicopters and military police flew over the city and the community of Complexo de Manguinhos and the German, trying to find the culprits for this situation. Schools are suspending classes and workers are returning early to their homes. In the center of town people interrupt their activities sooner. At present, buses are being burned, and roads blocked by drug dealers, vehicles and looting immediately after firing. In the last few days. more than 40 vehicles, including buses and cars, were burned, dozens of roadblocks, to then be charged the service to motorists.
In many parts of the state, the governor ally of Lula, try blitz by inhibiting the action of the traffickers, all officers who exercised internal functions, doctors, mechanics, clerks, all were summoned to serve on city streets as if the problem violence could be resolved in an act of war. All the measures so far taken by the state security sector have failed, and what prevails is the panic, insecurity and lack of a policy that actually confronts the violence and insecurity.
Right now the press, particularly the Globo network, takes the situation to increase their audience, touting the chaos that is city and state, but does not say that all this is explained on the one hand, depending on who lives a misery part of the population, which is condemned to live in the hills of the city in shacks with no jobs and paltry wages, repressed by fascist police and corrupt Sergio Cabral, the trafficking or the militia. Moreover, the connivance of the state to big business, which has links with international drug trafficking and weapons. These gentlemen are caught when they claim that they are collectors of firearms.
At this time the Security Secretary, José Maria Beltrame, said those who pass in front of the state will be hit. The police reflect the state orders and say they will die a lot of people. Thirteen people have died, demonstrating what is the policy of these gentlemen fascists. Go to exterminate the poor and blacks and young people will say they are drug dealers. A good example that we should not trust these rulers was the installation of the UPP in the area of Tijuca, Morro do Borel, Ant, White House Jacks, Morro da Liberdade, Turano, Willow, all with great presence of trafficking, with hundreds of dealers heavily armed, were occupied after government deal with the traffickers, which ensured the exit of all, with their weapons of war, before the occupation.
A shame. This maneuver the governor and all their allies was celebrated by Cabral, Lula, Dilma, and his security secretary, who reported that they had largely finished with the traffic and pacified the city and state without firing a shot. They said the smugglers fled scared. With this speech won the October elections. Who does not remember the candidate Dilma saying on television that would export these examples from Rio to the rest of the country? Actually what happened was a big deal of the state with the traffickers, who have moved to other parts of the city and state, preparing the area of Tijuca and the South Zone to receive tourists and investment from the World Cup and for the Olympics.
The governor and his allies go to work by armored car, escorted by security, by helicopter, while we workers are vulnerable on the buses, which are often being torched. The government will use this situation to criminalize poverty; they are preparing a real killing in the poorest regions. The military police is being prepared for the invasion of the German Complex and Manguinhos. The workers and youth will bear the brunt of this operation, all under the government's pretext of attacking the traffickers. We know how this policy will end. If you're black and poor, it's a deal of shooting and then asking for the police.
A socialist program to address violence
We find that the UPPs are not the solution. It is impossible to live under an occupation. All measures -- a farce of the State --, the courses with the trucks of the SENAC in communities (for very few people) to teach sewing and hairdressing training and basic computer skills, do not guarantee what is essential. People have to community and country for a good job with decent pay. We therefore propose that the minimum wage immediately double. We propose the construction of many places with good schools and education professionals with a decent salary, not the wage of 700 reais a shame that the state pays the teacher. Advocate the construction of good hospitals so that workers do not die because lack of beds in emergencies. We demand that the governor immediately stop the demolition of IASERJ, with the closing of Pedro II, hospitals that are fundamental. We want decent entertainment, access to culture, not being hidden for tourists' eyes. We want decent housing and infrastructure. There are those responsible for the actions that are happening in the city and state: the governor, the mayors and the federal government that did much fanfare in the elections and now leave us in this situation.
We will not end the violence and the trafficking without the decriminalization of drugs and without putting in jail the big businessmen who traffic in weapons and drugs, without the confiscation of their property. We will end up with violence if we do not have decent jobs for our families. We need to dissolve the police and a police building linked to the population and mainly controlled by it, with elections for the command and for the delegates with a mandate revocable. We demand an end to the extermination of the poor and black. Not the invasion and extermination of community residents.
EDIT: sorry for the shitty translation, I was in a rush.