workingclasshistory:

On this day, 14 March 2018, Marielle Franco, bisexual Afro-Brazilian socialist and feminist was assassinated in Rio de Janeiro.
Raised in a favela in the city, she began work aged 11, and later raised a daughter as a single mother working for the minimum wage, before being elected to the city council in 2016. The day before her murder she had spoken out against extrajudicial killings by police and paramilitaries.
The bullets which killed her had been bought by the federal police. The Minister of Public Security claimed that the bullets were stolen from a post office, but this lie was retracted when the post office publicly stated it was untrue.
So far four suspects have been arrested for the murder, all with ties to state security forces, and two of them with links to the family of recently elected right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro. One suspect, a former police officer, was killed in a shootout after police attempted to arrest him. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1374193906099089/?type=3