Marcos Adruda person
also: student, small, wavy-haired student, Marcos, Marco, Marcus Adruda
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Brazil was still a democracy and Brazil's president still had the ability to act. When a team of undergraduate scientists journeyed to the area, Dan Mitterrand was already deep in his efforts to improve the local police force. The students …
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profitable for Brazil. One team member was a small, wavy-haired student by the name of Marcos Adruda. He was enrolled in the School of Geology in Rio de Janeiro. Marcos did not look like a revolutionary or a martyr, and certainly during the…
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Marcos and some friends mentioned to the director of their school that because geology courses always ran from 7 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., poor students who had to work couldn't go. Yes, agreed the director, it's an elitist school, but geologists …
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They should jump from the hills and kill themselves. That's a nice sentiment. But, Lenardos said, geology has nothing to do with politics. Our role is to go up in the hills and see how beautiful the earth is. Lofty words, but to Marcos, not…
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Once again, a student delegation called on the director and asked why he had chosen those as recipients. They'd need money too, the director replied. The answer drove Marcus into student politics. He joined his classmates in making independ…
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97.3% of Brazil's iron ore was being mined by companies controlled by the U.S. There was Hanna Mining, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel. From Germany, there was Mansman, and from Belgium, Belgomera. In Minas Gerais, Marco's assignment was to sur…
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Areas not known to contain ore at all. When the survey was finally released, it turned out that HANA controlled the Choices deposits. Marcos could only conclude that the U.S. companies had enjoyed access to surveys in progress while the Bra…
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It would mine the nation's ore for the good of all people. Even in the Goulart era, that sounded radical. It was true that the group included two or three members of the Labor Party, but that matter, Marco said, didn't matter to him. It was…
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continued. Angela would faint and awake to find her mind clearer than ever. It was as if she was floating outside of herself, watching herself being tortured. She said that she would never forgive the United States for the role in training …
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had lived a scrambling life. For the two weeks after Gulliard fled to Uruguay, Marcos left Rio for the country and waited there with friends to see what was going to happen. In Brazil, employers had no use for an outspoken student leader. T…
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and he went to excuse me he went to work in a factory marcos's one deception was listing joking myself um his highest education as elementary school so that he would actually get hired he was working around factory workers that were not all…
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for a factory that was owned by a Western company. Hold on a second. I got a sneeze. The company that hired him was a foundry owned by Mercedes-Benz. There were 3,000 workers that manufactured parts for wagons and tractors. Marcos was a mac…
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For the upcoming payday. Although he had hours owed to him. Not only once he got better. Would the company not give him his back pay. They fired him. So those are just some of. The circumstances. So this guy. Tries. Because he's college edu…
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to help some of the people there with their grievances and their disputes. One of the companies was called metal. Well, one of the quote unquote unions that had been infiltrated was called the Metal Workers Union of San Paolo. But like I sa…
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So eventually, Marcos gets himself in trouble because he's trying to help the people there. And he had a schedule on him one day when the Oban people came looking around for who was helping. So let's see.…
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They picked Marcos up and began to beat him. And once inside, they beat him for three hours before they asked the first question. Marcos decided, because he knew very little, that he was going to not talk. When the police uncovered who he a…
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When he almost died, he was given the day off from getting tortured. The policeman then tied his knees and his elbows and ran a pole through the connection and lifted him up so that he was suspended four feet off the ground. They used the p…
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They also tortured him in the same way that we've articulated all the rest of them. The neighbors in this particular place began to complain of this police station that they were using for a torture chamber because they could hear the peopl…
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And he was so far gone that they had called the police to administer the last rites. One of the interrogators came in and said, you're not a worker, you're a geologist. So they had basically ran his name and figured out who he was. Marcos d…
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One of the police came in and said, what is your organization? Who are your comrades? Why do you work in a factory when you could have had a better paying job? Don't you want higher wages? They just assumed that he was part of one of the un…
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Her name was Marlene. Marlene was somebody that he had met while he was working at the factory. And they had been torturing her as well. They made Marcos listen to her screaming. And the policeman says, we're going to kill her if you don't …
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And he basically said the policeman told him, well, it's your fault she's getting beat. And Marcos tells him, no, you're beating her, not me. You know what we want. You must be stupid working for shit wages if you're a geologist. You could …
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for not wanting to live in a country with a CIA-installed dictator. He was returned multiple times to the hospital. And on one of the returns to the hospital, in another bed was a prisoner who had been shot. Then with the bullet still in hi…
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This one, 21 years old, had been arrested for distributing leaflets to workers outside of a government steel mill. The police administered the ritual beatings. Then they learned she was pregnant and basically jumped on her stomach until she…
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Later in a security cell, an army corporal remarked to Marcos how odd it was that Marcos should be in jail with a corporal and uneducated man standing guard over him. It's weird, the soldier said. Many of the prisoners are students or profe…