The Knight moves like this… The Bishop moves only diagonally… The Queen moves like this… This… and like this. My Queen was here, Knight was here, I had to move like this. If the Knight moved here, it would be sacrificed by my Queen. If it moved like this, if would be sacrificed by my Bishop. Here, it would be sacrificed by my Tower. There was no way out. Checkmate. The number of women here at "Cracolândia" has increased. About 70% of them affirm to have suffered some kind of physical violence. 44% were sexually abused. Under that scenario, the risk of a pregnancy is very high. 17% are pregnant. I’m here at downtown São Paulo to talk about this reality. The System A portrayal of healthcare in Brazil This is a little building inside Cracolândia. We’re about to see how Keiti lives here with her husband and her 9 year-old boy. When did you start to use it… Pretty frequently, when I discovered crack, I was 18. -Then you started to use it frequently. -Yes, frequently, and when I realized, I was already troubled. I had forgotten everything, I was living in another world. I had abandoned my children. -How many kids did you have? -Actually, at 18, I had three kids already. I had Kennedy, my older son, who is 26 years-old now, then I had Luiz, who is 25 and Kemilly, who is 24. -One per year. -Yeah, I had three. Then I had the last one, John Nicolas, from my second marriage. And from my last marriage, I had nine. I’ve been with Robson for 18 years now. -How many children, total? -In total, I had 14. But there are only seven alive. Women get very vulnerable here, especially to sexual violence by men. Women, homeless population and women who are drug users, stay in this exposed situation. They are very unsociable to the healthcare approach, especially when they’re pregnant, because they are afraid to lose the baby to the State, afraid not to have the right to keep the baby after birth. We know that, at Cracolândia, they live in little hotels and motels, homes, tenements and all those kinds of places. We also know that mothers have their children, and they take care of them, even those who usually go to funk parties, they come back from these parties and fulfill their maternal duties. This is what happened to Cauê. After I moved here, I lived at "Hotel do Zezinho 2", the police entered and took my boy, with a search and seizure warrant, at 6 a.m. They knocked on my door: "Hey, what’s up? Search and seizure warrant. Is Cauê here?" "Yes. Wait a second, I’m gonna dress him up." "No, no. Open the door." I did, and they got in, -handcuffing him. -Did they handcuff him? -Yes. -How old was he? He was 7. It was two years ago. So, 20 days went by, I raised my hands, went to work. One day, I was working and the social worker came to me: "Have you seen Cauê?" "My son is at the shelter." "No, your son just got out of the shelter." "How?" "He fled. He fled the shelter." -How old was he? -He was 8 -when he fled. -How did he flee? -So little… -He ran away. He got out of the shelter at Rua dos Italianos, got a bunch of keys, threw it under the table and left. He and eight other kids. So you’ve already been at three shelters, Cauê? Where were those shelters? The first one was the most boring. The second less boring was the last one. -The coolest one was the second. -Did they treat you badly? -What did they do? -Burnt me with cigarettes… Who burnt you? The woman from the shelter? -Did you cry? -No… It just hurt. She said: "I’m sorry, it wasn’t my intention." But I know it was, because she pushed it hard. It was at my butt. Left a scar. The Child and Adolescent Statute, the Federal Constitution, they talk about full protection, which means this child has to be protected of every kind of risk. And certainly, living with drug users is a severe risk situation. Every week, there are two or three babies being delivered at maternities and, after that, they get abandoned, and the lawsuits go to the Children’s Court. There’s a tennis table there, and other stuff. Sports, swimming, soccer, chess, checkers… Keiti, how do you earn money today? Sometimes I clean houses and charge 50 reais for it. Sometimes I babysit and earn another 50. I try to gather what I can, you know? I even go to the market, sometimes. They say: "Oh, look, Keiti is going to the market." And I say my market is Cracolândia. I wait for some drug user to come with some cracker or cream, so I can buy it for my son. Sometimes I can gather, in a month, besides my "Bolsa Família" and my income, about 400 reais. What about the trouble, when the police comes, -bursting bombs? -Yes… it’s called… -"operation". -Operation. The situations is that there was a big decrease in the security status. Our agents couldn’t enter the locations anymore. It got really bad. So in May 21st there was a police confrontation, and they got in there with 92 arrest warrants. So the scenario changed. Those four blocks were emptied and we were able to act in a much better way. But what happened next? The next day, nothing was done. You see? We made all that, but the next day the State disappeared. So we took advantage and got inside. Every morning, when I wake him up for school, the first thing I see is this window. So I say "good morning" and open this huge window. Through it, we can see Cracolândia’s day to day, if everything is actually perfect, and then it starts. We’re right in front of the square. So I think: "What a blessing." But when that conflict starts, and I smell that smoke, our only defense is this, we hide ourselves… I stand behind the door. We fear that a stray bullet might come through, that something bad may happen. He looks like a little horse: "Mom, run! The bullet!" We don’t allow people to set up tents anymore. The streets are cleaned three times a day, with a water squirt. Everybody has to leave, we clean with the squirt, to make them uncomfortable. Now we are cleaning the streets at 2 a.m. Cleaning the streets at 2 a.m. You see? Just to make them uncomfortable. At May 21st, 2017, the police started a polemic "mega operation" involving 900 agents, with the purpose to "suffocate" Cracolândia’s drug traffic. As a result, we had drug users spread all over streets and squares. How is your life now? Do you think you have a good life? -No, it’s bad. -Is it bad? Why is it bad, Cauê? Because I don’t make anything good. -And what exactly is bad? -Everything. Except for the food. The food is good? How would you like your house to be? Big… How many rooms should your house have for it to be good? Two. One for me and one for my mom. Yours and your mom’s. So it should have the stairs, a couch, living room, kitchen, a bathroom. And that’s all. It would be a good house for you? Everything together? I wanna ask you something: which relative do you like the most? -My grandpa. -Your grandpa? Why do you like him the most? -Because he is nice. -Is he nice? Does he take you for a walk? But he only comes once in a while. Those boys who are playing soccer, do you play with them? Only with that one who is wearing the Barcelona’s shirt… Black and white… wearing red and blue. Let’s go there? Let’s go. I’ve been following the crack epidemy since 1992, the year that crack came in and spread across Carandiru. The whole prison smoked crack. It’s really hard to see these people destroying themselves because of a compulsive drug use. But personally, the saddest aspect is these girls who get pregnant while smoking crack. We have to find contraception methods to avoid these pregnancies. These women don’t get pregnant because they want to go through the mysteries of motherhood. They get pregnant because they live in that risk situation. It’s unacceptable. Pick a card and memorize. Don’t tell me. Pick only one. Did you pick? Your card will show up. Don’t tell me which one is it, just look where it will be at. I’m gonna do it three times to try and find your card. Where is it? One, two, three, four, five… Very good! -Is that your card? -Yes.
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