19 years of “Salve geral”: how organized crime flourishes in the failures of the State

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Casper Libero chapter. Last Monday, the 12th, marked 19 years since the beginning of the attacks that marked Mother's Day in 2006. Deaths, fires and destruction led São Paulo to go into lockdown and left 564 dead, 505 civilians and 59 public agents. The attacks were demonstrations of the brutal force of the PCC, but they also made clear the price of corruption, police violence an…