At first, I would like to thank you, foreigner readers, for all the support you give me when you visit this blog. Maybe I have to apologize because I've never post something in English here. So, this will be my first try. Hope you all enjoy it!
Rio de Janeiro is facing a very hard trouble: drug traffic. In spite of the fact that your newspaper maybe does not have this kind of subject on its pages when talking about Brazil, our population here has to deal with this problem daily.
As we all know drugs are a worldwide problem. But here, in Brazil, specially in Rio, our Government has to combat not only its social effect but its organization, or better, all of the organizations that exist here. They occupy the slums, forcing young boys to work for them as true soldiers persuading them by a small amount of money that its poverty and misery are not capable of producing.
Geographically, our city has grown around the slums, and, as a cultural capital - in southeast of Brazil - Rio de Janeiro used to attract people from all parts of the country, people who were after a chance of success or just money, and it still does. As long as the city could not offer them these possibilities, slums were growing but the state was weak. Historically, our Government was out of money during this period, and in fact, there was not any kind of public policy to help this situation not to happen. This scenery added to bad salaries for our police forces made our police corrupt. Policemen started to close their eyes for dirty in exchange of money and all the problem that we face now is a consequence of this historical process.
Nowadays, the Government has money. Royalties of oil, tourism, and other sources are responsible for that. Rio became famous once more. Its glamour and beauty has made it the host of very important events, but our dirty is still under the carpet. Our Governor, maybe I could say Ruler (a word that carries an old conception in it, very propitious, anyway) Sergio Cabral Filho has developed a policy of pacification of the slums. The police force of the state goes there and occupies the territory for days. Of course, the bandits run away every time, but some conflict cannot be avoided, actually. The bandits go to another territory dominated by another drug traffic faction and a war between them starts in the middle of a community that is in there.
Not far from it, the president of US was praising this policy, and of course, we know why.
This was only a point of view, I’m sure. But the thing I was wondering you to see is that we are humans. Sometimes war tactics are not applicable. Lots of innocents, pour, simple people, are suffering with this process victimized by a policy that has no other purpose than change the problem place and makeup our society. We have to attack poverty with education and opportunities, citizenship on its true form.
I will keep my concerns about this issue hoping you all could think about that too.
(Sorry about the English^^)
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