Brazil’s Senseless ‘War’

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/19/brazils-senseless-war

This news published on April 19 explains the history of a police officer. His name was Alda Castilho a police officer of 27 years. On February 2, 2014 he died in a slum of Rio de Janeiro. It was shot by a few drug traffickers. In Brazil there are many murder victims, the majority died by the drug traffickers. In Brazil the production and the distribution of drugs has been growing and the democracy has weakened. The main target that the police officers have is to finish with the drugs and every day they face a new conflict. In Rio de Janeiro there is many corruption and the corrupt police officers commit these murders. At present in Brazil there is more drug than in 1970. The police officers say to us that the struggle operations against the drugs are useless. Many of the best traffickers continue its commerce from the jail.

Finally, they want to solve this problem with the help of the United Nations. The solution will be to legalize the drugs possession but many opponents say that the drugs consumption will increase. In Portugal there worked the decriminalization of the possession of drugs and at present the number of persons dependent on drugs diminished. Some countries are trying to legalize the production, the distribution and the use of the marijuana because it is the most consume illegal drug. If the government of the country decides to legalize the marijuana there will be less profit and there will be less murders. This solution might save many lives every year.

OPINION

In my opinion Brazil is a developed country but it has many problems. Principally that of the corruption and that of the drugs. If the situation is still like that the country is going to be controlled by the traffickers. An example was Pablo Escobar, a trafficker of cocaine that the government and Colombia wanted to control. Brazil is a nice country, with a good beach, good ambience and the good people. The government should use more strict measurements because any more deaths cannot be allowed in vain. The corruption should be eliminated and there should be more police officers in service. This news says that the solution to this problem would be to legalize the drug but I am not very sure. They are right because there will be less profit but also there will be many production. It might be a big problem because the traffickers might transport this drug to other countries. This solution would work if all the countries accept.

Finally, I would like that this problem was solved because the drug is very bad. The people do not realize that the drug is a chemical substance for the body. That's why many people die but also I understand the situation of the slum of Rio de Janeiro. The people of this quarter do all the possible to maintain their family and to be able to live in better conditions.

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