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Автор: Platt Damian
Название: Nothing by Accident: Brazil On The Edge
ISBN: 9781838534851
Издательство: Independent Publishing Network
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1838534857
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 294
Вес: 0.29 кг.
Дата издания: 26.08.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 19.84 x 12.85 x 1.57 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: On a sweltering March evening in 2018 Marielle Franco was shot dead. Rio de Janeiro is a routinely violent place but this was different. Marielle was a rising star of the citys political scene and was hit four times in the head by a professional hitman. Elected the same year, President Bolsonaro, an enthusiast for torture, murder and the worst excesses of the countrys 1964-1984 military dictatorship, subsequently declared war on the countrys institutions. Brazil is on the edge. Whoever ordered Marielles killing severely underestimated both her popularity and the outrage at her murder, which has revealed a profound rot at the core of a divided society.
Damian Platt spent thirteen years living and working in Rio. In Nothing By Accident, he describes events in the city during the tumultuous decade that preceded her murder and the election of a tyrannical President. Moving beyond standard discourse about violent gangs from poor communities, Nothing By Accident overturns stereotypes and offers a new narrative - much more complex and much closer to sources of power - to explain the operation of violence and corruption in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil.
Nothing By Accident also aims to express the impact of insecurity and chronic armed violence upon ordinary people forced to live in abnormal conditions. Digging below the superficial representations of events, the book identifies and reflects upon elements that bind this disastrous scenario together.
Nothing by Accident is divided into four parts:
The first, Chaos, describes urban warfare in Rios favelas and the failure of a state pacification programme to reduce violence in the city.
The Greatest Show introduces a little known but enormously powerful branch of Brazilian organised crime, jogo do bicho, the animal game in English. Illegal in Rio since the end of the 19th Century, the game is extremely popular and run by family clans who control the citys Carnival parade and have tight links to the military dictatorship.
Truth and Lies focuses on the 2014 Truth Commission (which was intended to reveal facts behind Brazils 1964-1984 military dictatorship) and the mass street protests of 2013. Both processes highlight fault lines in Brazilian society: when the chief witness of the Truth Commission is murdered in suspicious circumstances, I discover that the trail for his murder leads back to the jogo do bicho. Examining the failure of the street protests, I tell the story of Bruno Teles, a young protestor framed in a terrifying episode of staged violence.
The Hornets Nest discusses the aftermath of the murder of Marielle Franco in 2018. When a cover-up fails, investigators discover that not only does one of the actual alleged assassins live in the same housing complex as President Bolsonaro, the group also enjoy connections with his family. The gunmen belong to a racketeering death squad formed by ex-police and militiamen with strong connections to jogo do bicho clans.

Nothing by Accident: Brazil On The Edge, Platt Damian