Though police violence is widely tolerated in Brazil, not everyone believes in ‘eye for an eye’ as official state policy.
- Coordinator, Center for Studies on Public Security and Citizenship (CESeC), Universidade Candido Mendes (UCAM)
Famously freewheeling – but also violent and unequal – Rio de Janeiro has elected a right-wing former pentecostal bishop as mayor. What’s at stake for this ‘gay, black and tolerant’ Brazilian city?
In Brazilian prisons, overcrowding, corruption and gang infiltration are a combustive combination. But it all started with bad drug policies.
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