Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
INTRODUCTION: Thinking about Social Violence in Brazil
Recently, drug traffickers based in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas have attacked government buildings, bombed buses, and successfully ordered widespread business closings. Over the past decade, murder rates have averaged 50 per 100,000, in line with the most violent U.S. cities, and overall rates may actually be even higher as a result of increasing rates of disappearances. In poor districts, murder rates can exceed 150 per 100,000 inhabitants. Indeed, riding this wave of criminal and police violence, human rights abuse has increased in Brazil since its transition to democracy two decades ago.
Fonte: ARIAS, Enrique Desmond. Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Disponível em: www.jstor. org/stable/10.5149/9780807877371arias. Acesso em 06/11/2017. [Introduction: p. 1-17]
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