Youth from the Periphery of the Amazon Pará

Marcinho Pitbull was a citizen of the Democratic State of Law who experienced the cruelest form of human rights violation: extermination within his territory.

Talking about Marcinho means giving a voice to adolescence and young people from the outskirts

Peripheries are historical products of capitalist processes in Brazil, they were created from the perspective of colonial exploitation, which has its origins in mercantile capitalism. Obviously, adolescence and youth suffer the impacts of coloniality embedded in Brazilian Amazonian institutions, and in sectors of society that reproduce this legacy of a country created from authoritarian, racist decision-making, hatred of the working class, generating criminalization, subalternization and strengthening violence against populations living on the outskirts, including in the Amazon of Pará.


When they exterminate adolescence and young people living in the outskirts, it is not uncommon in State institutions and some sectors of society for the victims to be accused of "vagrancy", of being "victims of chance" for "being in the wrong place" and a series of justifications emerge. that blame the victims and hide those responsible. This is the result of the historical process of territorial formation in the Amazon, which for more than 500 years has nullified the capabilities of original, traditional peoples and also stigmatized urban peripheries.


To dear reader: understand this page as an explanation for civil society and the State about who the victims of extermination are in our territory. We do not accept young people from the periphery being killed, being held responsible for their own deaths, not even in corridor speeches, much less in official documents.

To say who Marcinho was is to say who the teenagers and young people were exterminated by extermination groups, militias, drug traffickers and police in Pará. We cannot bring Marcinho to life, so we understand that our commitment is to preventing new murders. Therefore, it is necessary to say and repeat, as many times as necessary, who the exterminated teenagers and young people are until the cases of extermination of young people on the outskirts of the Pará Amazon cease.


Marcinho started working at the age of 17, in the SENAC-Pará young apprentice program, he received a letter of recommendation from the Companies of the Líder Group, where he began his career. Below are the proofs that include the signed work card, Apprenticeship course completion diploma and letter of recommendation.

Marcinho's formal work

During the investigation into Marcinho's death, he was accused of being a "vagabond" and/or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. "He had a formal job and was killed on the street where he lived."

Adolescence

Although it is an enormous difficulty, Marcinho Pitibul's right to professionalization was successfully exercised during his adolescence. We want to multiply this right to more teenagers.
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Life and death story

Marcio dos Santos Rodrigues, aka Marcinho Pitbull

Marcio dos Santos Rodrigues, in memoriam, was born on September 17, 1992, in the municipality of Belém, Pará. Biological son of Suzana dos Anjos Amaral, he was raised by his paternal grandparents (Walter and Neuza), Suzana's legitimate uncles. He always maintained the mother-child bond with his biological mother.


He was known in the community as Marcinho, he studied at a public school, studied the SENAC-Belém Minor Apprentice program (CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION OF A COURSE AT THE SIDE) where he started working at the age of 17 (WORK CARD AT THE SIDE).


During this period, he organized a group of young people to participate in Aparelhagem and Tecnobrega events, very common among young people on the outskirts of Pará. The group was called Mega Kamaradas do Tapanã.


Marcinho got sponsorship from a clothing brand (PitBull) which gave him his nickname in the Marcinho Pitbull community. In addition to cultural and leisure work with children, teenagers and young people from the outskirts, Marcinho was an employee of a restaurant in a central neighborhood of Belém (WORKING CARTRIDGE NEXT DOOR), where he worked with a formal contract from Monday to Friday.


He was killed at the age of 22, on the street where he lived, with a shot in the back, being one of the 10 victims of extermination groups in Belém between the night of November 4, 2014 and the early morning of November 5, 2014. , according to information from the CPI of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Pará in 2015.