Erika Hilton: What is being stated is that the Brazilian people have been paying salaries to militiamen, to criminals who infiltrate Brazilian institutions to cover themselves, to protect themselves, to cover up their crimes.
Erika Hilton: There is an intrinsic, historical and structural relationship between politics, the police, militias, and organized crime in the State of Rio de Janeiro and throughout Brazil.
Today, we receive with joy the news about this sentence, and we hope it will serve as an example so that none of us has her life interrupted, has her rights denied.
Erika Hilton: We hope that we can close this open wound, this deep sore that was left from that fateful, sad and painful moment on March 14, 2018.
Erika Hilton: I take this time at the podium to send a hug to Marielle Franco's family, to her sister, Minister Anielle, to her daughter, to her parents, who tirelessly, even with much pain, much anguish, without answers, did not rest for a single minute.