Chaos In Brazil With Gang Attacks
I wish I had better news for my readers tonight but, yes, it’s true, we are living a chaos. It’s all over the blogsphere, in the papers, on Google, Yahoo, on-line news and on telly: CNN, Fox, BBC… Brazilian society panicked today.
I live in Sorocaba, a city in the state of São Paulo. We had a few attacks here too and cops got killed by the bandits. This afternoon I could barely work after 2 strange phone calls I got at home and I didn’t rest until I picked my kids up back from school. Downtown all the shops were closed or with the doors half closed. People were running and I didn’t see any policeman around.
Even though the police says things are under control and São Paulo’s Governor refuses the help of the army on the streets saying the militaries can do the do, the violence continues. Many policemen have been killed since last Friday. Criminals are burning buses and setting fire to banks, threatening the next targets will be the schools. So classes have been cancelled today. Brazilian Universities shut their doors down, afraid about what could happen. Many bus stations are closed too because the owners of the buses don’t want them to be burnt-out. My student just phoned to cancel tonight’s class. He’s worried and his mother doesn’t want him going out either…
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Photo: Agência Estado
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