Brazilian Killed by London Police Had All His Papers
Written by Michèlle Canes
Tuesday, 26 July 2005
During a joint news conference yesterday in London, Brazilian minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, declared that Jean Charles Menezes was in England with a legally valid visa.
At the same news conference, the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, declared that he believed the family of Menezes should receive some sort of indemnity although the decision was not his to make.
Jean Charles Menezes, 27, was a Brazilian from the state of Minas Gerais. He was an electrician who was mistaken identified as a terrorist and shot dead by London police last Friday.
THIS TERRORIST SHIT IS GETTING OUT OF HAND SO EVERY BODY THAT LOOKS LIKE A MIDDLE EASTERN PERSON LETS KILLING THEM RITE?
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... written by Guest,
July 26, 2005
Since 1997, 308,000 asylum seekers were refused residence in the UK, and only 72,000 are on record as having left. Just from that group that's theoretically 236,000 illegal stayers who may decide not to stop on an anti-terrorist police command. That's an accident waiting to happen in the current climate. Mr Menezes is reported today as having an expired student visa. That may have influenced his decision to run, tragically.
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Illegal Aliens Stay Home written by Guest,
July 30, 2005
Keep your asses in your own country where they belong and you won't get f-cked up. See what happens when you do wrong and enter a country illegally. You have to take whatever shit goes down in that country.
Brazil needs to get it together. She is not a poor country. Start sharing the wealth instead of a few people hoarding every dime. Then your citizens will not have to illegally enter other people's countries and get their asses kicked.
America and Europe are targeted because of their racist thug policies towards nonwhite countries. America is the richest country in the world because of her trigger happy killer mentality which she inherited from her Anglo Saxon mother England. If the UKs thug cops are anything like America's anyone who is not platinum blonde and blue eyed is fair game.
The Anglo Saxons are gun happy, racist and murderous. If Brazil would stop trying to be a fake white Anglo Saxon country and get herself together then there would be no need for her citizens to risk life and limb in the US or UK.
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Danger everywhere written by Guest,
July 30, 2005
Brazilian are the most unassuming and self-effaced group of aliens in US. The same must happen in England. They do not engage themselves in subvsersive activities and dream to pass for nationals. That poor boy was victim of a perverse combination of plice paranoia and his guardian angels negligence.
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Mr Menezes written by Guest,
August 03, 2005
This man wasn't accidentally mistaken for a terrorist ... he was deliberately executed .... and many people are asking why. Did Mr Menezes work as an ordinary electrician within construction ... or was he much more cleverer than this ... and working perhaps for the Britsh Government ? It would answer many people's questions surrounding his very suspicious execution.
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WTF written by Guest,
August 19, 2005
I am muslim and I am proud to be a muslim and anyone who thinks that all muslims are terorists can put his head into a hole and shout "I am a dumbass!" For the illegal entrance into the europian countries question:" DO U THINK THAT SOMEONE HAS ESPECTED ALL HIS LIFE TO LEFT HIS COUNTRY AND HIS FAMILY TO GO ON ANOTHER CONTINET TO LIVE, OR IS IT MAYBE BECAUSE OF THAT HE OR SHE DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY, OR FOOD". I am from Bosnia and Hercegovina and I was illegaly in Italy: YOU specialy ENGLAND and USA u are living from the us that we were in war.
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
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The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
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