Dissonant Security
An edition of Dissonant Security (2020)
Democratic Processes and Authoritarian Policing in Latin America
By Yanilda María González
Publish Date
2020
Publisher
University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Language
eng
Pages
355
Description:
""I looked [former] President Dilma [Rousseff] in the eyes and told her she is the hope of more than 60,000 'Mothers of May' produced by my country. [But] she should stop celebrating the end of the dictatorship, because we live in a false democracy, a democracy that kills tens, scores, hundreds." Debora Maria da Silva - the mother of a young Black man killed by São Paulo's police in May 2006 and founder of Mães de Maio (Mothers of May), an organization of similarly afflicted mothers - routinely denounces what she calls the "democracy of massacres" (democracia das chacinas) meticulously executed by Brazil's Military Police forces"--