Brazil & Southern Cone - May 2024

The federal police have arrested the suspected masterminds behind one of the most high-profile political assassinations in Brazil in recent years, the 2018 killing of Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco. This May edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone begins with an analysis of the murky web of corruption that police believe led to her murder, with the main suspects being political opponents of Franco with alleged ties to Rio’s paramilitary criminal gangs known as ‘milícias’.

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