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I want to make one thing clear first. The favela is a place for ordinary people, the poorest workers in the city. It is where the people who move the city come from, the first place to wake up in our society. People complain about waking up early, but they like to have coffee and bread at the bakery when they wake up, but they don't even realize that people woke up even earlier to get it ready. 90% of favela residents are good, ordinary, hard-working people who earn their money honestly to survive.
The favelas emerged after slavery ended in 1888. It is very
recent, if we think about it. We did not have a government that helped the
freed slaves, they were thrown aside, left on the margins of society. Some
preferred to continue working for their owners, as they had nowhere to go.
Others formed neighborhoods in places far from the city center, and in an
attempt to disrupt their settlements, these neighborhoods were invaded by the
white population, with government backing. This attitude forced blacks to seek
refuge in the hills, thus starting the favelas.
Let's talk a little bit about how the traffic got to the favelas.
Brazil went through a rigorous period of Military Dictatorship, the same that
our government today both exalts and wants to make return. If we allow it, the
current president will not step down and will force the dictatorship back. In
the 1970s, in prisons, people started to organize. Ordinary prisoners and
political prisoners joined together against corrupt jail security guards who
abused them even with taxes within the jail itself. Common criminals thus
learned techniques of organization and political struggle, understood how to
organize themselves and how to profit illegally.
At the time, the traffic was not so organized. It was done
in several places in small quantities and when the newly organized criminals
discovered the traffic, they got rich. In the early 1980s, the traffic was
already super organized and the favelas, being a more fragile place, were
chosen as a point of sale, organization and distribution, since they were
mostly poor, the state does not try to give proper support and would guarantee
work, with good but needy people, who would be seduced by the profits promised
by the drug trade.
Today, in the 2020s, trafficking has weapons that are too
strong for the state to deal with. Last year the police seized a helicopter
with 430kg of cocaine. It is common for large vehicles to appear with absurd
amounts of drugs. Trafficking is not just in the favela, it is all over the
country, the favela is just the face of trafficking. The traffickers shown in
the images are just soldiers used as a sacrifice to move this money. In 2009
the traffic shot down a police helicopter, managed to shoot it down with its
heavy weapons.
As stated in a previous post, there are good and bad people.
On one side there is the drug dealer who burns people alive on tires, on the
other there is the drug dealer who uses his power and influence to protect the
favela. Traitors who pass on information and join with another faction,
residents who give information to other factions or the police, or criminals
within the favela can be killed. Once, a former student of mine said she
couldn't go to class because they were “cleaning up” the favela she lived in,
drug dealers killing thieves and rapists who lived there. But I have also seen
reports of traffickers who use their power to abuse residents of their own favelas.
On the one hand, there are people who feel more secure
within the favela, on the other there are people who wanted the trafficking to
end. In the end, it's a lot of personal experience for everyone, and I want to
bring testimonials from people to this blog, what do you think?
In general, no family wants their relative to join the drug
trade. They know that it is a short, dangerous and troublesome life. Young
people and even children are seduced by trafficking, bringing suffering to
their families. Once, teaching a class, a former student came out of the room
crying. I went to ask what had happened and she explained to me that her
boyfriend had joined the drug trade because he couldn't find a job and was
arrested. He didn't want to, but he had no choice, the family needed to feed. I
also taught a boy who got his course paid by the drug dealers, but he was
expelled from the course because he was caught selling drugs to other students
in the course corridors.
Therefore, the relationship between the favela and the
traffic is very ambiguous and goes from the experience of each one.
I would like to know if you want to read the testimonies of
people I know and who live or have lived in the favela. If you want, I'll run
after it and put it on as fast as I can.
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Lots of drugs in a helicopter.
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