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Brasilien. Marielle Franco Has Not Been Silenced
Brasilien. Marielle Franco Has Not Been Silenced
On March 14, 2018, in the center of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, two gunmen in a car murdered Municipal Chamber Councilor Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes. Unlike most of the city’s political leaders, Marielle came from Rio’s favelas. And many of the favelas’ millions of marginalized and mostly black residents saw her as their champion. For these people, and for Marielle’s allies in the human rights movement, her death is not simply a murder. It is an assassination. (OSF – Open Society Foundations, 20.03.2018)
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/marielle-franco-rip