Marielle Franco

Fri Mar 16th 2018 by abagond

Marielle Franco (1979-2018), a city councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro and champion of human rights, was a rising political star in Brazil. She was, in effect, the leader of Brazil’s counterpart to Black Lives Matter. But then, two nights ago, on March 14th 2018, she was shot dead in an apparent assassination.

She was a voice for women, for Black people, for queer people, for the favelas – the slums and shantytowns of Brazil. She lived in Maré, a favela of 130,000 in Rio. She quoted Angela Davis and Audre Lorde. She belonged to PSOL, the Party of Socialism and Liberty, a small left-wing party, and was one of only five Black women elected to political office in Brazil in 2016.

Franco four days ago, speaking out on Acari, a favela in the Zona Norte part of Rio, well north of the famous beaches:

“We need to shout so that everyone knows what is happening in Acari at this moment. The 41st Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police is terrorizing and abusing the residents of Acari. This week two young men were killed and thrown into a sewage ditch. Today the police walked the streets threatening the residents. It has always happened and with the [military] intervention it has gotten even worse.”

Franco three days ago:

“Another homicide that can be credited to the Military Police. Matheus Melo was leaving church. How many more will need to die for this war to end?”

Franco two nights ago was shot dead, four bullets to the head, in the city centre of Rio. She had just left a meeting with Black activists (pictured above). The bullets were the sort used by the PF, the national police. Nothing was taken.

Rio de Janeiro, March 15th 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mauro Pimentel. MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP/Getty Images)

Last night – it is hard to believe it was just last night – tens of thousands of people poured out into the streets of Rio, Sao Paulo, and cities across Brazil.

President Temer has cancelled his trip to Rio. He was not elected. He came to power after the impeachment of the elected president, Dilma Rousseff. Last month, just days after Carnaval, Temer sent the army into Rio. Supposedly to fight the War on Drugs – without a plan.

Rio is a violent city, but its murder rate is no worse than, say, Baltimore, St Louis or New Orleans in the US. In Brazil it does not even make the top ten.

But the police – and now the army – are out of control. In the US police kill over 1,100 people a year – a hideous number well beyond civilized standards. But in Brazil the number is over 4,200. For Rio state alone the number last year was at least 1,124 people.

And now when someone raises her voice against it, she too is killed. She was only 38. A mother.

Franco’s sister:

“Maré … cries. Rio cries. All of Brazil cries.”

Shaun King, a Black Lives Matter activist in the US:

“The assassination of human rights activist Marielle Franco was a huge loss for Brazil – and the world. …

“Marielle Franco was one of us.”

“They will not shut us up – Marielle is here”

– Abagond, 2018.

Sources: especially Google Images, Black Women of Brazil (the Franco quotes, basic facts), The Intercept (the numbers, the King quote), Midia Alternativa (the sister’s quote).

See also:

Black Brazil
In the US:
- police brutality
- War on Drugs – aka the War on Black People
- Black Liberals – why someone like her would appeal to me and the pitfalls of that.
assassinated:
- at 21: Fred Hampton
- at 35: Patrice Lumumba
- at 39: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr
she was a quoter of:
- Angela Davis
- Audre Lorde

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on Sat Mar 17th 2018 at 11:08:32 gro jo

The Brazilian army is bringing home the lessons they learned in Haiti as part of MINUSTAH (French: Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti), an acronym of the French name, was a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti that was in operation from 2004 to 2017. The war on Blacks is international. No point appealing to the UN as Malcolm X wanted to do in the early 1960’s since they are the fig leaf used to protect the rich from the poor.

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on Sat Mar 17th 2018 at 18:03:35 Mary Burrell

She was a brave humanitarian and activist. Was she murdered because she was fighting for the poor people in the favelas? Or was she murdered because she was queer? She was a brave and i hope she her death is not in vain. I hope some other brave soul in that favela picks up the mantle and I hope those people fight for their freedom.

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on Sat Mar 17th 2018 at 22:24:03 Solitaire

@ Mary Burrell

That’s a good question. There is also a very high murder rate of LGBTQ people in Brazil.

Maybe the right answer is “all of the above”? Marielle Franco was black, queer, grew up poor in a favela, and was an outspoken advocate for human rights. Probably she was targeted because of everything she was and represented.

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on Sat Mar 17th 2018 at 22:57:24 Mary Burrell

@ Solitaire:

Thank you for your response this is what i am thinking.

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on Sun Mar 18th 2018 at 16:50:52 blakksage

First and foremost, this woman, Mariel Franco a beautiful woman who bears a striking resemblance to a Negress that I attended high school with. Wow!

With that being said, where were the men of the favelas, you know, those of the ranks of machismo to guard this queen?

Where were the men of the barrios when Mariel frequently spoke out and denounced the domestic terrorism of Brazil’s police forces under the guise of a supposed “War on Drugs?” Where were they?

Where were the men of “Maré, a favela of 130,000 in Rio” go to, when Mariel courageously confronted the local and national governmental police forces that were essentially in the trenches of committing genocide of Black people? Trust me, the daily violence, sexism and hatred will continue just as soon as mass protests of Mariel’s death shrinks to that of a small group of protesters raising their Black fists in the air.

Where were the men of “PSOL, the Party of Socialism and Liberty,” that should’ve been covertly shadowing and protecting her every move to immediately strike back and counter every threat or if she was ever confronted with violence?

Why did the usually testosterone laden men of Maré (Rio) noticeably shrink in the face of being treated as mere chumps as a whole by the police and transferred the responsibility to a single Black sista? Where did they go?

Oh my, … I could only imagine the shame of being a man of Maré (Rio) these days, or in the alternative, the rotating axis of shifting the position or responsibility of being a man on to that of a Black woman when either the mere threat, or violence itself pays a visit to the favelas!

WHAT?, … wait a minute, I just received a memo stating that the men of Maré Rio were cowering in fear behind the skirt of their individual grandmothers! (sarcasm) (smh)

https://www.theroot.com/say-her-name-marielle-franco-a-brazilian-politician-w-1823812564

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on Sun Mar 18th 2018 at 19:06:37 gro jo

“With that being said, where were the men of the favelas, you know, those of the ranks of machismo to guard this queen?”
They were too busy dodging the bullets of the assassins who killed her.
Did you miss the part how 4,200 of them are killed yearly? I love it when people make claims like yours, ignoring reality.

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on Sun Mar 18th 2018 at 22:01:03 blakksage

“Did you miss the part how 4,200 of them are killed yearly? I love it when people make claims like yours, ignoring reality. – grojo

LOL! Look at grojo, himself, ignoring reality that Maré, a favela of Rio with a population of approximately 130,000 people. I surmise that a first grader would’ve easily figured out that if you’d subtract 4,200 from 130,000 it would still leave around 126,000 people. But yet, according to the brilliance of grojo, the remaining population are all women. (smh)

Brush up on your math grojo and quit making excuses as to why the remaining men of Maré failed to protect this woman! And while you’re at it, go get a life, … loser!

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 11:02:03 abagond

Last night in Rio, Katy Perry sang “Unconditionally” while Marielle’s picture was on the big screen behind her. She had Marielle’s sister and daughter come to the stage. She hugged them and let them talk. Perry called for a minute of silence. Here are bits of it:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK–5TgDQSA)

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 11:10:56 Mary Burrell

@ Abagond :

Not a Katy Perry fan but that was a respectable thing she did remembering Marielle Franco.

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 11:14:26 abagond

Many in Brazil are heart-broken at Marielle’s death, seeing her as a defender of human rights, while others think she brought it on herself, seeing her as defending thugs.

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 11:37:31 gro jo

“Brush up on your math grojo and quit making excuses as to why the remaining men of Maré failed to protect this woman! And while you’re at it, go get a life, … loser!”
Tough guy, how many women have YOU protected thus? I recall a number of black women gunned down in the USA last year. WINNER, Hahaha.

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 11:38:57 gro jo

By the way, you still haven’t told me how you know Hannibal was black.

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 11:42:16 gro jo

One more thing, WTF is “SELAH”? The expert say nobody knows what it means, have you made an original contribution to the study of ancient Hebrew genius, or is this more of your usual nonsense?

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 11:45:57 v8driver

thats horrible RIP

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 11:47:12 v8driver

selah? yeah he says that all the time is that like huzzah or something 🙂

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 12:01:41 v8driver

and asking the favela denizens to stand up against the army is unreasonable, ostensibly the army is there to take the gangs out, why would a narcotics dealing organization care about civil rights

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 14:17:52 blakksage

“Tough guy, how many women have YOU protected thus? I recall a number of black women gunned down in the USA last year. WINNER, Hahaha.” – grojo

“By the way, you still haven’t told me how you know Hannibal was black.” – grojo

“One more thing, WTF is “SELAH”? The expert say nobody knows what it means, have you made an original contribution to the study of ancient Hebrew genius, or is this more of your usual nonsense?” – grojo

LOL! When I was a young man, I would always hear the older folk of my community say the following: “An empty can, sure makes a lot of noise.”

I’d add parenthetically to their quote: SO DOES GROJO!

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 14:39:44 v8driver

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13398-selah
a musical interlude? is that like la la la i can’t hear you?

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 14:43:17 v8driver

or apparently, ‘can i get an amen’

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on Mon Mar 19th 2018 at 15:32:42 gro jo

‘Genius’, I’m just asking you to prove you are for real by answering my questions. Everyone knows you think little of me. I know you hate Africans with lip plates, do you know that some Amerindians also wear them? How do you feel about that and how do you account for such strange tradition in people separated by thousands of miles? Please favor us with your ‘vast’ wisdom. LOL.

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on Tue Mar 20th 2018 at 15:52:35 blakksage

Look at grojo, making every bit of a fool of himself. Need I remind you that this is someone’s personal blog. It is not a question and answer session of things you’re obviously incapable of figuring out. There is a difference, you know!

Also, you should fill out an application to be a comedian, you’d do quite well I believe. I’m done with you!

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on Tue Mar 20th 2018 at 16:38:37 gro jo

You claimed to know that Hannibal was “Black”, to know what “selah” means, and to lecture Black Brazilians, who created their own form of martial art, Capoeira, since the 16th century to defend the Quilombos they created to protect their women and children, on how to be real men, and I’m the comedian!?
“The biggest quilombo, the Quilombo dos Palmares, consisted of many villages which lasted more than a century, resisting at least 24 small attacks and 18 colonial invasions. Portuguese soldiers sometimes said that it took more than one dragoon to capture a quilombo warrior, since they would defend themselves with a strangely moving fighting technique. The provincial governor declared “it is harder to defeat a quilombo than the Dutch invaders.””
Yep, those Black Brazilians are real pu**ies.
“I’m done with you!” Keep running, if you argue with me you might learn something, no way in hell will you allow that to happen. Learn some real history instead of the “Afro-eccentric” bs you spew around here.

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on Wed Mar 21st 2018 at 02:34:01 abagond

Marielle Franco made the front page of the Washington Post:

A black female politician was gunned down in Rio. Now she’s a global symbol

Viola Davis tweeted her support of Franco.

In Brazil some are spreading lies about her – what one blogger calls a second assassination (just like how they killed Trayvon Martin twice):

https://cineesofia.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/porque-querem-assassinar-marielle-pela-segunda-vez-chomsky-explica/

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on Wed Mar 21st 2018 at 03:54:26 Afrofem

Keep running, if you argue with me you might learn something, no way in hell will you allow that to happen.”

Yes, that is a well practiced modus operandi, the snipe and run technique.

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on Sun Mar 25th 2018 at 20:39:02 Afrofem

@Abagond

I came across this article in the Intercept by Glen Greenwald where he describes an effort by Brazilian media to convert Franco’s image from that of a no nonsense radical to a defanged human rights crusader a la Martin Luther King, Jr. Greenwald writes:

“…you can’t erase the memory of someone with such threatening, disruptive views, what do you do? You erase all the views that you find threatening when allowing him to be celebrated, and convert what he symbolizes into something simplistic, clichéd, and unthreatening.

[…] This is what many in Brazilian media and political elites are now trying to do with Marielle. They know she will not be forgotten, and that the anger and disgust at her brutal assassination is not going away. So the project is now underway to drain her of her radicalism and disruptive energy and instead, convert her into a generic and pleasant symbol, so that they can exploit her for their own ends, including to generate support for status quo-perpetuating policies that she loathed.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/19/just-as-u-s-media-does-with-mlk-brazils-media-now-trying-to-whitewash-and-exploit-marielle-francos-political-radicalism/

The propaganda effort is neverending….

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on Mon Mar 26th 2018 at 17:04:49 abagond

@ Afrofem

Some are sanctifying her but others are demonizing her, spreading lies about her. But the aim is the same. Like Trayvon Martin, her death exposes a dangerous crack in society.

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on Tue Mar 27th 2018 at 16:25:55 Afrofem

@ Abagond

Black Agenda Report (BAR) published two articles on Marielle Franco. One was written by Glen Ford 3-22-18 where he introduces an another BAR article by a Black Brazilian journalist, Jaime A. Alves.

Alves’ article describes the situation on the ground that led to Franco’s assassination and its aftermath. Alves also touched on your comment above regarding her post mortem demonization. Alves notes:

“In the aftermaths of Marielle`s murder, she would be killed again and again by right-wing activists on social media, police officers and conservative judges spreading fake news about her supposed involvement with drug-trafficking and “bandits” in the favela.

The fake news is aimed at justifying police terror against Marielle, [Gomes] Anderson [her driver killed in the same attack] and the people of the favelas, who are, in the racist imagination, naturally-born delinquents, and those denouncing police abuse are “advocates of thugs.”

By savaging the biography of Marielle, as it is usually done with ordinary black Brazilians killed by the police, they tried to ‘re-kill’ her and to demoralize the struggle of the black movement and particularly of black women seen as the source of urban insecurity .”

https://blackagendareport.com/marielle-francos-assassination-one-tens-thousands-black-murders-brazil

Glen Ford’s separate commentary provides a historical and social overview of Black society in Brazil. He describes the similarities and differences in the Black struggle for rights and equality in Brazil vs. the USA. In Ford’s opinion:

“the Brazilian state is conducting an even more lethal war against its Black population than its northern counterpart’s militarized oppression of U.S. Blacks. There is plenty of room for debate on why this is so, but I submit that the historical militancy and relative solidarity of Blacks in the U.S. has been a great shield and spear against an unrelentingly hostile white society and state.

Although Blacks in the U.S. constantly complain of a lack of solidarity and waning militancy among our people, the truth is that, compared to other populations of the African diaspora, we are collectively fierce!

[…] Black Americans are the model of Black militancy in most of the world. No other Black national group has waged repeated urban rebellions in the major cities of a modern, white-led capitalist state. The resilience of Black U.S. solidarity and militancy means there are political, economic and, sometimes, blood prices to be paid for crimes against this people – and the state knows it.

A key factor that distinguishes Black people in the U.S. from others in the diaspora is the historical absence of an independent mulatto class. The relatively high prices brought by the heavily securitized and fantastically profitable slave “stock” in the U.S. discouraged slaveholders from allowing the creation of such a class, while constantly reinforced white majorities eliminated the need to formalize a “buffer” population of mixed race persons in the United States. The slave descendants here are uniformly “Black” — and consciously so. Our super-exploitation — with no means to escape by “lightening” the race – was transformed into a near-unique level of solidarity.

Black Brazil is belatedly transforming… There are many more “self-declared black” people — as Alves describes Marielle Franco — in Brazil than ever before, despite long periods of massive European immigration to that country…”

https://www.blackagendareport.com/no-holding-back-black-brazil

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on Tue Mar 27th 2018 at 18:09:20 abagond

@ Afrofem

That is reassuring, that they took her death seriously.

I agree about the mulatto thing: the lack of a sliding scale in the US keeps Black people off the fence and requires greater powers of self-deception for those who want to think they have somehow transcended race.

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on Tue Mar 27th 2018 at 18:55:53 jefe

^
This is an issue for the USA as well, especially given the resurgence of interracial families since the 1970s.

However, the recent resurgence of white nationalism may serve to counter and recalibrate the racial positioning of these interracial families.

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on Tue Mar 27th 2018 at 19:49:58 Solitaire

“while constantly reinforced white majorities eliminated the need to formalize a “buffer” population of mixed race persons in the United States.”

I’m not sure if the implication here is that the large white majority meant there was no reason for a mixed-race buffer population or that the newer white immigrant groups actually served as a buffer population. If the latter, it puts an interesting perspective on how a number of those European immigrant populations were not originally considered white, or not quite white enough.

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on Tue Mar 27th 2018 at 20:20:22 Afrofem

@ Solitaire

I think Ford meant the latter.

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on Wed Mar 28th 2018 at 01:35:43 v8driver

nerfing the target’s agenda, interesting but logical

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on Wed Mar 28th 2018 at 01:42:30 v8driver

i think that’s the definition of ‘overkill’

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on Wed Mar 28th 2018 at 03:12:06 Afrofem

@ Abagond

There seems to be a phenomenon in Brazil of more people who used to be comfortable calling themselves “pardo/a”, “moreno/a”, “mulato/a” or the dozens of other color classifications Latinx tend to use as a shield against Blackness embracing their African and Indigenous roots.

In 2011, The Guardian wrote about increasing numbers of Brazilians declaring themselves Black, Mixed Race or Indigenous on the national census. The article notes:

“…results from the 2010 census, released on Wednesday, show that 97 million Brazilians, or 50.7% of the population, now define themselves as black or mixed race, compared with 91 million or 47.7% who label themselves white.

The proportion of Brazilians declaring themselves white was down from 53.7% in 2000, when Brazil’s last census was held.

But the proportion of people declaring themselves black or mixed race has risen from 44.7% to 50.7%, making African-Brazilians the official majority for the first time.

“Among the hypotheses to explain this trend, one could highlight the valorisation of identity among Afro-descendants,” Brazil’s census board, the IBGE, said in its report.

According to the census, 7.6% of Brazilians said they were black, compared with 6.2% in 2000, and 43.1% said they were mixed race, up from 38.5%.

In 1872, when Brazil’s first census was conducted, the population was split into just two groups: free people and slaves, who then represented 15% of the population.

The IBGE said that while its researchers had detected the trend about three years ago, the 2010 census was the first full nationwide study to recognise the phenomenon.

In an interview last year Brazil’s minister for racial equality, Elio Ferreira de Araujo, attributed the change to growing pride among his country’s black and indigenous communities.

“People are no longer scared of identifying themselves or insecure about saying: ‘I’m black, and black is beautiful,'” “

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/17/brazil-census-african-brazilians-majority

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Luma de Lima Oliveira wrote about her journey from a Brazilian woman who struggled with color and hair issues to someone who embraced an African-Brazilian identity. On the blog, Black Women of Brazil, Olivera described her shift in consciousness in the article, “Mulata? Morena? Not anymore!: The power and liberation of recognizing one’s self as black”:

Today I march with my color in the middle of racism that tried so many times to erase me. I am proud of my story, my struggle… in fact, OUR history and struggle. I don’t let anyone else use “euphemisms” to talk about my color, my black skin is my essence, my poem.

[…] On the way I met people, strengthened my bonds, I saw from what side I want to dance the samba, on which side that I will fight. I learned that listening is one of the most precious weapons of struggle, recognizing myself as black is a revolutionary weapon.

…There was nothing more liberating in my life than to feel and recognize myself, neither as morena nor mulata: SOU NEGRA (I AM BLACK)!

https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2014/06/05/mulata-morena-not-anymore-the-power-and-liberation-of-recognizing-ones-self-as-black/

There are a lot of things going on in Brazil right now. From 2000 to 2017, they had a progressive government that opened up opportunities for Black and mixed race Brazilians. There were reductions in poverty, increased employment and openings in higher education. That led to a White backlash and a rightwing resurgence that toppled the government of Dilma Rousseff.

Now many of the poorest, Blackest neighborhoods are under military occupation. Those are some of the conditions Marielle Franco battled against before her assassination.

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on Wed Mar 28th 2018 at 17:31:07 gro jo

“There seems to be a phenomenon in Brazil of more people who used to be comfortable calling themselves “pardo/a”, “moreno/a”, “mulato/a” or the dozens of other color classifications Latinx tend to use as a shield against Blackness embracing their African and Indigenous roots.”
If “Latinx” is the new fashion, why not “pardx”, “morenx”, “mulatx”?

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 04:17:57 Afrofem

@ gro jo

Yes, why not? smile

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 08:15:44 abagond

Wow. It is hard for me to believe that Marielle died just two weeks ago. It seems more like three or four.

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 08:29:23 abagond

@ Afrofem

Luma is great. I used her blog as a source for this post (I trust her English translation of Marielle way more than mine).

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 15:20:45 v8driver

@afrofem well i specifically remember’ verbos latinorum’ from my studies and it’s been such a long time but strictly speaking? Latin{us|a|um} is going to be about the latin language, or more loosely a speaker thereof? And obviously all the baggage/overhead/context/whys and wherefors? If im wrong… Gladly accepting corrections.

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 15:20:45 v8driver

@afrofem well i specifically remember’ verbos latinorum’ from my studies and it’s been such a long time but strictly speaking? Latin{us|a|um} is going to be about the latin language, or more loosely a speaker thereof? And obviously all the baggage/overhead/context/whys and wherefors? If im wrong… Gladly accepting corrections.

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 15:36:29 Afrofem

@ v8driver

It is my understanding that the move to the term “Latinx” in some circles is an attempt to create a modern gender neutral version of Latino/Latina. Spanish is rife with gender descriptions of people, places and things such as El Sol (the sun) or La Casa (the house).

Since Spanish is still a living language, it is still undergoing changes, including borrowed forms and terms from other languages such as English.

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 16:19:22 Solitaire

@ v8driver

Latin@ is another way people have tried to make a gender-neutral term. It’s seen as encompassing both the “a” and the “o”.

My understanding is the “x” ending is intended to take into account people who are trans or non-binary, to avoid any gendering of the term so no one feels excluded.

I have used the first term frequently but am starting to make the switch to the second one.

If your issue is about the Latin language versus the Spanish/Portuguese languages, that’s a whole different topic. We can discuss the thorny issue of nomenclature for the peoples of/from Latin America if you want.

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 20:33:24 v8driver

Well i understand latinx, i guess something in afrifem’s comment sent my on a tangent? It’s a real thing now this gender neutral pronoun thing, especially in europe, apparently.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10215753346215200&id=1489932727&refid=52&tn=-R
Canada too

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 20:55:51 Solitaire

English used to have grammatical gender for all nouns just like in Spanish, Latin, German, and many other European languages. That was one of the elements of English that got simplified after the Norman Conquest.

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 22:11:19 v8driver

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/22/canada-government-defends-asking-employees-to-use-gender-neutral-terms

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on Thu Mar 29th 2018 at 22:47:15 Afrofem

@ v8driver

Have you reached the end of the tangent or is there more to come?

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on Fri Mar 30th 2018 at 20:35:00 v8driver

No afrofem, other than to one of ny fb friends is really going off on this issue, not sure why. My lovely wife is back in my wife so tangents and hyperbolic trajectories will be limited on my end for the forseeable future 🙂

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on Fri Mar 30th 2018 at 20:43:44 Afrofem

@ v8driver

Good for you. Much happiness to you and your wife.

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on Sun Apr 8th 2018 at 19:39:46 Carolyn Moon

“The assassination of human rights activist Marielle Franco was a huge loss for Brazil – and the world. …

“Marielle Franco was one of us.”

Yes she was and we must not forget her and other freedom warriors!

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on Sat May 19th 2018 at 02:15:27 the-natemare-theorist.tumblr.com

I enjoyed going to your webiste. I leave comments rarely,
but
you definately up deserve a thumbs!

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on Sat Nov 3rd 2018 at 22:44:04 Alberto Monteiro

Update: Temer’s Minister of Security, Raul Jungmann, ordered the Federal Police to investigate attempts by local political forces of Rio de Janeiro (elected in 2014 as part of an alliance of PT and PMDB) to confuse and misdirect the investigation
https://www.oantagonista.com/sociedade/urgente-pf-vai-investigar-esquema-para-impedir-elucidacao-caso-marielle/

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on Fri Dec 14th 2018 at 12:01:48 Alberto Monteiro

Update II: it seems like she was murdered by criminal groups involved in the “legalization” of robbed cars and land invasions. Probably her murderers overestimated what she knew and might tell the federal army who was going to occupy Rio. BTW, Rio’s governor is in jail now, for corruption

https://www.oantagonista.com/brasil/milicianos-assassinaram-marielle-por-causa-de-terras/

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on Wed Mar 13th 2019 at 15:34:34 Alberto Monteiro

Update III: shooter and driver were identified and arrested. Next step: who hired them?
https://www.oantagonista.com/tag/marielle-franco/pagina/1/

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on Fri Mar 15th 2019 at 23:48:50 v8driver

@Alberto Monteiro thanks for checkin in although yo no tengo portugues, the translator didn’t work so well for this site,

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on Wed Mar 20th 2019 at 00:26:31 Alberto Monteiro

Quick resume: the police had the model and color of the car of the shooters. Then they checked each one of the 458 owners, and found that one of them had turned off the cell phone in the two hours around the time of the murder.

It was a perfect crime. They were caught by the perfection of covering their tracks.

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on Mon Apr 8th 2019 at 15:23:24 Alberto Monteiro

Update IV:
The current investigation points to one congressman from the PMDB/PT coalition as the man who orderered her murder – as I mentioned months ago

PSOL, Marielle’s political party, is like a satellite party of PT, which means her murder could be an inside job. Obviously, PSOL totally forgot that she ever existe

https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/pf-cita-ex-deputado-brazao-como-possivel-mandante-da-morte-de-marielle/amp/

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on Wed Aug 21st 2019 at 00:16:42 Alberto Monteiro

No news, but this site lists the moments and places when and where the cell phones of the murderers were turned off and on:

http://www.tribunanf.com.br/coaf-aponta-deposito-de-r-100-mil-na-conta-de-ronnie-lessa/

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on Tue Oct 29th 2019 at 13:27:38 Alberto Monteiro

This is – almost surely – the guy that contacted Marielle’s murderers:
http://cleubercarlos.blogspot.com/2019/10/domingos-brazao-politico-apoiador-de.html?m=1

Now there will be 5 years of more police work, 10 years of judgment, 5 five years in the TRJ (regional), 10 years in the STJ (national), 15 years in the Supreme court and then (only then) he will be put in jail for 6 months, after which he will be set free.

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on Mon Feb 10th 2020 at 11:24:05 v8driver

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51439016
“Brazil murder case suspect shot dead by police”

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on Mon Aug 17th 2020 at 10:39:04 Alberto Monteiro

If this crime couldn’t become even more horrible…

The current line of investigation is that the purpose of murdering Marielle was causing furor and indignation, and deviate the attention to this murder:

https://noticias.r7.com/rio-de-janeiro/marido-de-funkeira-e-morto-a-tiros-na-barra-da-tijuca-16032018

That was the real target, someone deeply involved in funk music and drugs, rival of the people who hired the “Escritorio do Crime” (something like “Crime Inc.”)

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on Tue Sep 22nd 2020 at 15:45:54 Alberto Monteiro

For those who want to understand the complexity of brazilian multiparty politics: Luciano Ayan (pseudonym) is the founder of MBL (a new-left group) who disseminated fake news against both Marielle and Bolsonaro.

He said that Marielle was, until the moment of her death, affiliated to the drug cartel.

The fake news against Bolsonaro were used by brazilian supreme court to launch an unconstitutional and criminal attack against freedom of speech.

Luciano Ayan was arrested for corruption, and the police found, in his possession, drugs and child pornography.

https://noticias.r7.com/brasil/dono-de-pagina-de-fake-news-sobre-marielle-e-socio-de-dirigente-do-mbl-26032018

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on Tue Sep 22nd 2020 at 18:10:45 munubantu

@ Alberto Monteiro

Do you agree with the way President Bolsonaro has handled the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil?

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on Fri Jul 30th 2021 at 16:26:51 Alberto Monteiro

Cristiano Girão, a former councilman of the city of Rio de Janeiro, was arrested today. He is connected to the murder of Marielle Franco.[1]

He was, in 2009, the local leader of PMN,[2] aka “Partido da Mobilização Nacional”, one of the many leftist parties in Brasil.[3] There is, so far, no direct connection between Girão and Marielle: his prison was connected to another double homicide, executed by Ronnie Lessa in 2014. Even though he was convicted of many crimes, he was set free in 2015.[1]

As I mentioned above, Ronnie Lessa is the prime suspect of being the murderer of Marielle Franco; so far, there is no proof of who hired him.[4]

Sources:
[1] https://noticias.r7.com/rio-de-janeiro/ex-vereador-do-rio-cristiano-girao-e-preso-em-sao-paulo-30072021
[2] http://aplicnt.camara.rj.gov.br/APL/Legislativos/contlei.nsf/ac391b2be8cd3ce503257960006a1e7a/5a338741f026347a032576be007241a9?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=2
[3] https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_da_Mobiliza%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Nacional
[4] https://jovempan.com.br/programas/jornal-da-manha/caso-marielle-franco-ronnie-lessa-e-mais-4-sao-condenados-pela-justica-do-rj-por-destruicao-de-provas.html

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