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Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas - Por mais de 30 anos, disseram que a Cracolândia era um problema sem s...
29 statements · 1 politicians · August 18, 2026 · 2 min
Statements by Tarcisio. 29 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Drug Policy, National Security, Urban Policies.
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About: continuously reduce the flow of users in open-use areas
For more than 30 years, the heart of the largest city in Latin America lived with an open wound, the Cracolândia.
- Neutral
About: continuously reduce the flow of users in open-use areas
And what began in the 1990s, with a concentration of drug users in the Luz district, grew until it became the largest open crack-use scene in Brazil.
Over the years, Cracolândia changed locations several times.
It passed through Rua Elvétia, Princesa Isabel, but it was here, on Rua dos Protestantes, that it had its final location.
It moved from place to place, but it never ceased to exist.
And this had a dark purpose.
- Neutral
About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime
Organized crime used the lives of users to cause chaos on the streets it passed through.
- Neutral
About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime
And this lowered property prices and ruined businesses, which were soon bought by crime as a way to launder money.
- Neutral
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
Many governments tried to solve the problem, but Cracolândia persisted as a symbol of the State's weakness.
- Neutral
About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime
Areas such as the favela do Moinho served as support for the storage and distribution of drugs, which supplied the large open-use scene in the city center.
The result was a devastating combination.
- Neutral
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
Drug addiction, violence, human exploitation, closed businesses, residents living in fear.
- Neutral
About: revitalize and restore urban public spaces
In one of São Paulo's most beautiful postcards, the city center was being taken over by neglect.
- Ambiguous
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
I always knew that it was not enough to push the problem from one street to another.
- For
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
It was necessary to shelter those who needed treatment, to know them by name, to learn the history of those who lived here for years, victims of those traffickers.
- For
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
And for that we opened the HUB, a reception and screening center and also more than 40 therapeutic homes.
But that was not enough.
- For
About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime
We needed to destroy the machinery that powered Cracolândia.
- For
About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime
We carried out several police operations, ending the PCC's front business, arresting traffickers and dismantling the favela do Moinho.
Then one day many people were surprised.
Rua dos Protestantes was empty and clean.
- Neutral
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
Cracolândia no longer existed.
- For
About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime
It was suffocated by smart management, but above all, by the will to care for people and for downtown São Paulo.
- Neutral
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
We know that the fight against drugs does not end overnight.
- Neutral
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
There are still drug dependents in the city.
- For
About: increase slots for addiction treatment
And that is why we do not stop working and will continue fighting so that these people are freed from their addiction.
- For
About: reduce homicides and combat organized crime
But one thing became clear: crime cannot withstand serious work.
And what they said was impossible, we proved that it was not.
Cracolândia is over.
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