A biography for Juliana Barbassahasn’t been written yet.
“Killings by cops on the job continued to rise. . . . they became an institutionalized way for police to settle scores."We stopped being peacekeeping police and turned into troops at war," Mário Sérgio said.”
“You kill one, there was another in his place, and what's worse, his nephew now hated you, his friend now hated you. . . . There was no end.”
“Really, what is the law when it stands in the way of what the government wants to do?”
“This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous shift in perspective.Rio was not at war, I pointed out; and even if it were, wars have rules.”
“The reality is fuck the animals, fuck biodiversity, fuck the laws, and long live construction," [Ricardo Freitas] said. "All of this is being done because some people will make a lot of money, and it's being done with no monitoring, no support, no rescue of species.”