Respeitem a Nossa Dor: O luto da Maré por Marielle
Marielle Franco (1979- 2018) was a Brazilian Social Scientist, politician, feminist, and human rights activist. On
March 14, 2018, after delivering a speech on “Young
Black Women Moving Structures”, Franco and her driver were shot multiple
times and killed by two assailants in another vehicle, North in Rio de
Janeiro. Marielle Franco had been an outspoken critic of police
brutality and extra judicial killings, as well as the February 2018
federal intervention by the unpopular president Michel Temer (first
president of the parliamentary coup d'etat era) in the state of Rio de
Janeiro.