Brazil Crime

Brazil is currently undergoing a large wave of gang-related criminal activity that has resulted in backlash towards the police for their inadequate response. Rohter from the New York Times described how the prison gang, First Capital Command, has escalated their crimes to terrorize law enforcement. This pressure has caused the Brazilian national government to act by moving the gang members to maximum security prisons hundreds of miles away from the capital. The decision to separate the members motivated the street affiliated members to increase terror on law enforcement. It was not until the government officials met with the gang leader, Mr. Camacho, to negotiate a peace offering, that the gang called a cease-fire on government officials. To

The beginning of Brazils economy started when Portugal colonized the country that is known today as Brazil. The Portuguese were in search of vast riches and they got their first taste of earnings around the 1540’s. With the popularity of sugar cane growing in Europe, the Portuguese quickly started an agricultural enterprise in their colony. The Portuguese took advantage of the Dutch through their commercial skills and financing; in order to quickly get a foothold and build a small sugar monopoly. The financing from the Dutch allowed them to set up this whole sugar cane trade remarkably fast. Allowing the Dutch to also ship the sugar back to Europe made it one less risk the Portuguese had to worry about. The trading of sugar also impacted

This report looks into the sports played, activities you can do and the festival and events as well as food found in Brazil. Brazil, or Federal Republic of Brazil which is its official name, is the fifth largest country in the world and in located on the eastern side of South America and has a coastline with the Atlantic Ocean. The official language of Brazil in Portuguese and its currency is called “real”. Brazil has many different landforms, which are home to the largest variety of animals in the world.

South American governments have always been somewhat corrupt. However, recent public abuse of resources for private gain -- corruption -- has created a disaster in Brazil, and it seems everyone in power is connected in one way or another. During the past fourteen years, construction company executives (among others) colluded to overcharge Petrobras, a state-owned entity, for government contracts, and Petrobras executives looked the other way in exchange for bribes. Petrobras executives then bribed government officials to keep them quiet. (Beauchamp). No one knew about these deals until oil prices unexpectedly dropped, creating massive debt and exposing the deficit the corruption created. The scandal has effectively strained the government's

The Public Defender’s Office of Brazil case will show that the judiciary and its structure, can, be inclusive from the bottom-up. Through mobilization from individual actors such as lawyers and judges deeply committed to democratization, these groups successfully pressured legislative action, (Madeira 2014, 55). This enabled the establishment of “de jure independence,” which is independence specifically granted by law, and stipulated, as it is in Brazil’s Complimentary Law 132, Article 4 of constitutional Amendment 45. The attributions that this new amendment, which was pushed by the citizenry called for elements such as “career security” as a legal guarantee for judges and lawyers to work freely. These included protection from being fired

Dinzi, the owner of the largest frog farm in the world, located in central Brazil, declares cannibalism amongst the frogs only happens when there is not enough food. He adds, “Generally humans attack from behind, but frogs attack from the front saying ‘I am going to eat you’ and swallowing head first.” However, entrepreneur “Mr. M” in San Paulo conveys a different story of criminals without fear indicating the level of desperation when his is robbed and the criminal walks a few yards away to count the cash. Attorney General of Brazil, Claudio Fonteles, explains that Brazil’s money is concentrated in San Paulo forcing the people in the poorer regions to voyage closer so “maybe that wouldn’t get an entire loaf of bread but at least they get the crumbs.” Brazilians have a past of oppression by the aristocracy, and Manda Bala documents how their society has evolved and somewhat adapted to the new breed of subordination. The crime in Brazil is a consequence of a privileged class securing their own assets at the expensive of the impoverished. Furthermore,

Brazil has some of the most violent cities in the world. The murder rate in Brazil has been going through the roof each year. Some cities have a murder rate of 50 per 50,000 people. Most murder victims are usually male, poor and teenagers. Most of these crimes take place in the infamous favelas of Brazil. Murder is not the only crime leaking in the shallow streets of the favelas. High-profile rape cases, kidnapping, drugs, and weapons dealing in the favelas are the common headlines in Brazil (Griffin, Jo). These crimes are born in the favelas and spread through the streets of Brazil. The economic growth of Brazil over the years has benefited the rich puppeteers of the society, but it has made life more miserable for the poor (McCann, Bryan). Not just in Rio, but favelas have spread throughout many cities in Brazil and now they are the number one birthplace of different types of crimes in the country. In this paper, we will analyze an article published on the online version of ‘The Guardians” regarding the lives of people living in Brazilian slums (favelas).

Brazil’s Armed Forces Pulled Off Streets but Remain in Rio According with the news, the Brazil's armed forces are into a mission to arrest criminals with the reason to “strike organized crime in its structure” and this mission is focusing on three pillars: integration, intelligence and surprise. As long as we have seen the power demonstration of the army the entire population feel protected. However, the main question that will stay is, what will happen in the near future?

The Petrobras scandal has definitely put Brazil back to square one. The country has seen tremendous growth over the last two decades; however, this scandal is occurring during a pivotal part during Olympic season. Petrobras is highly indebted, meaning it owes a large amount of money to pay back a monetary loan.

Petrobras is Brazil's Biggest Company and also is their national oil company. Petrobras, who was recently ranked at #28 in Fortune Global 500, recently had a loss of $16.8 billion as an effect of the corruption scandal. Scandal that involved the Workers political party that appointed their own candidates to Petrobras highest executive positions. The unethical behavior of the appointed executives has greatly damaged the Brazilian economy and has thrown thousands out of work when they decided to divert funds which are value up to 3 percent of all contracts with Petrobras. The bribery scheme was brought into light by Alberto Youssef, a criminal money launder. Mr. Youssef predicted that if he spoke about the Petrobras bribery scheme the nation was going to fall into turmoil.

A lot of organizations around the world devote their lives and forces to protecting human rights and preventing human rights violations. A lot of large organizations that have websites in which they declare human rights violations, and call for the prevention of situations both at the governmental level and on the primitive. Public opinion and support is very important for them, as they want to see that people still care. And, thanks to public activity, they can declare to human rights bodies, call for reforms.

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In 2007 the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector of the World Bank Group, lent to the largest beef processors in Brazil, Bertin LTDA. The demand for beef increase as world’s population does. The increased in Brazilian’s cattle industry is by far considered the Amazon rain forest biggest threats. After the loan environmentalist believe that the rate of deforestation in Amazon Rain forest increase due to the financing and modernization of Brazilian cattle industry. At the time the cattle industry was and still one of the main contributors of the deforestation of the Rain forest. To supply the increasing demands of slaughterhouses, farmers are encouraged to clear huge areas of rain forest to increase the area to rear cattle. Even IFC’s own pre-loan analysis indicated that the risks could be irreversible/ or unprecedented, that shows that Knowingly they went forward on stimulating a destructive activity that is the main of Amazon’s deforestation.

The negative impact that this scandal has brought to the nation is inmeasurable and can be described in a simple chain. Besides the results of thousands Brazilians being unemploymed, government gross debt level and the a dent in the industrial sector, the image that the government is giving to the wolrd is that the government is controlled by the wealthy and it does not have the structure to make proper and ethical accountability achievable. The next part of the chain would be a question that international investors and foreign observers would ask themselves. “ Would I risk my money in this country?”, “ Is now a good time to invest?”. “ Where is the integrity”?. With an uncertain answer, there is a huge probability that it will affect drastically the trades, investmens, and business plans.

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