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...slums. And while jobs are scarce, says Wilson, "there's no lack of opportunity to get into crime." Despite dire prospects, the poor keep arriving in the city of 18 million. As joblessness, crime and violence continue to grow, the rich are beginning to take flight. Mariana Montoro Jens, who works for an antiviolence ngo called Instituto Sou da Paz, says: "People think of this as the country of soccer and samba. But this is a violent country." The rise of the pcc is one sign of that. Says Ferréz: "In a place where the state doesn...
...public outcry prompted Sāo Paulo Governor Andre Franco Montoro to declare a "permanent war against crime." One of his first moves was to authorize the purchase of 262 new police cars to help catch more criminals in the act. Some financial institutions now have as many as 100 armed guards on the payroll. Bank lobbies feature turret-like booths with small slots for keeping rifles trained on potential thieves. According to Geraldo Vidigal, a lawyer for the Federation of Brazilian Bank Associations, these armored guardhouses initially provided "a certain psychological deterrent," but ultimately proved useless. Once a robbery...
...explosion of economic despair in Brazil's most populous state (25 million) posed the first major challenge to Governor Andre Franco Montoro, who has been in office for barely a month. A member of the center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement, Montoro was swept into power last November in the first open elections to be held since the military took charge in 1964. Though Montoro used to decry the heavyhanded police tactics of Brazil's authoritarian federal government before his election, he found last week that he also had to call out military police when a surging crowd...
...Governor finally agreed to hear the demands of a delegation representing the region's unemployed. Later, in a televised address, Montoro said he would create 40,000 new jobs and appealed to industry leaders not to lay off any more workers. But he reminded listeners that Sāo Paulo's pressing economic problems could not be solved quickly...
...Montoro's supporters blamed a handful of left-wing agitators for the violence. They are afraid that the central government, which is still led by the military, will use the incident as a pretext to intervene in local affairs. President João Baptista Figueiredo, a former cavalry general who has promised a slow and gradual return of democratic freedom to Brazil by 1985, ordered units of the Brazilian army in Sāo Paulo on alert last week. But he let it be known through an official spokesman that it was the state government's responsibility...