Urban violence: Whose fault is it?

Who is to blame for the violence in Brazil, or more specifically in the state of Ceará, which is experiencing attacks from criminal drug trafficking factions?

Who is to blame for the violence in the state of Ceará, or in Brazil as a whole: the judiciary? The judges who sell sentences? The prison guards? The police chiefs? The politicians?

Frankly, we won't solve this problem with repression or with the theory that the only good criminal is a dead, imprisoned, or humiliated criminal.

If we think that way, we are reproducing the actions of Bolsonaro's supporters.

The issue is a social one involving education, health, and employment, so that these young people don't get lost in life.

Could I, you, and our friends have gotten lost if we hadn't had a warm roof over our heads, good schools, food, and other things that we had?

Our nieces and nephews cry for a cell phone, and parents give them one, but what about the son of a poor person?

Honestly, it's not easy, it can't be easy to live on the other side.

Not everyone is lost, but at this moment the state is losing the war against drug trafficking, and many young people, without prospects for the future and facing these problems, have preferred to become drug traffickers and burn buses or government buildings, as they will receive between one and five thousand reais.

The security problem is nationwide in Brazil, and since these young people, lost throughout the Brazilian state, were expelled from Rio de Janeiro, they came to the Northeast, and now it's Ceará's turn.

But who are the ringleaders? Who makes money from drug trafficking? Who sells weapons? Who sells police cars and weapons to the state? Who sells mattresses and ready-made meals?

Who genuinely profits, and who is desperately trying to survive in this unequal war?

The parents of these young people who will be killed will lose out, or the children of those who will be left without parents. The poor who are caught in the crossfire will also lose out, because this rarely happens in Aldeota, in the wealthy neighborhood.

The poor person who takes the bus loses, and the group that lives off this criminal underworld wins. For them, it's better to have an uneducated, unemployed citizen in jail than to give them a well-paid job, because dividing the "pie" and reducing social inequality is not what many of those who run the Brazilian state want.