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  […] One week has passed since the city of Sao Paulo was paralyzed by gang attacks and the blogosphere in Brazil is wildly spinning the many aspects of this unprecedented confrontation. Here, we will present an overview of the various narratives generated from the multifold and multicolored currents flowing through the ever more popular and impassioned personal journaling of Brazilians. “Sao Paulo, with a population of 17 million and a land mass which spreads over 3,00 square miles is the world’s third largest city and the largest metropolis in South America. This most modern cosmopolitan city in Brazil, has often been compared to New York because of its attraction, which lies in ethic minority communities, upthrusting skyscrapers, and the outstanding cuisines that the city offers. Apart from the outstanding qualities that this city portrays, it is also considered a home to organized crime groups. The vile and evitable drama, which has really turned ugly, sparked up when around 700 members of the PCC [First Command of the Capital] crime gang were moved from a low to a maximum-security prison to minimize the influence they have had over the years on other inmates. The PCC was formed years ago as a gang within the prison walls to protect the rights of prisoners. Today, they have spread immensely outside the prison system and formed organized crime gangs which deal in drugs, kidnapping and armed robbery in most crucial and economically vibrant Brazilian cities.” São Paulo, Brazil on Fire – Negritu.de – Blog “I believe I imagine civilization as a circle because I’ve grown up in Sao Paulo. In Rio de Janeiro, for example, there is a close contact between privilege and poverty which does not happen here. From an historical perspective, what differentiates São Paulo is its urban expansion model, which left the poor crowds on the margins of the city. It created a central privileged zone kept orderly by the control of public authorities and a periphery that was invisible. INVISIBLE… Until now!!!! The PCC attacks present a new reality, tearing down the illusion that Sao Paulo was different from other cities. The expansion of the privileged center grew to the poverty zones, crossing to the world beyond the bridge… Sao Paulo is exactly the same as the rest of the country, built upon a brutal inequality which concentrates and does not distribute wealth.” PCC attack’s (II) – Jaw of 1984 […]

  7 September 2006, 1:11 am
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  […] Global Voices Online » Brazilian Gangs Wage War On PoliceBrazilian Gangs Wage War On Police . One of Brazil’s biggest gangs, the First Capital Command (of First Command of the Capital — PCC), took the fight to Sao Paulo’s government […]

  18 October 2007, 7:11 am
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  […] Cláudio Lembo (então membro do extinto PFL, Partido da Frente Liberal) que, em 2006, após os ataques da facção criminosa PCC à cidade de São Paulo [en], diagnosticou a violência no Estado de São Paulo como sendo culpa da “elite branca.” […]

  24 August 2009, 15:15 pm