On the reasons why we survived
My name is Marieta Santos and I was elected to register all the facts regarding the resistance led by Tião Ceará and his soldiers against the living dead.
As almost everyone else, I first heard about the plague on the TV; how it was quickly spreading to many countries around the world. Our president appeared on the primetime, reassuring that it would not affect our people or the economy, that the authorities were taking all the necessary precautions to protect our borders from it.
The first identified cases were here, in Rio de Janeiro, American tourists fell ill and were taken to a local hospital. Those patients were responsible for infecting hundreds of other people, then it got out of control really fast.
In a month, the city was already taken by the armed forces, but they could not avoid a catastrophe.
Tião Ceará was the second in charge in the paramilitary organization that ran the community in the Complexo do Alemão. The leader of the organization was killed some days earlier in a confrontation against the military, when they tried to invade the favela to establish a defensive base on it.
We were in a strategic point. Like in the castles during the Dark Ages, all we had to do was to build a stronghold in a higher ground, and shoot down anyone or anything that was trying to get inside our walls.
To our advantage, almost any professional that performs an useful task lives in the favelas; bricklayers, bakers, electricians, plumbers, cooks, police officers, teachers. I'm a History teacher myself. The working hands of Brazil are usually the poorest ones, so there wasn't a more suitable place to resist than in a favela. Those rich folks living in Copacabana can't do shit. They can't build walls, they can't shoot a gun, they don't even know how to prepare their own meals, so they were the first ones to die.
I never ever thought I would be so thankful for being poor one day. That was what saved my life.
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