Abused - The owner of the hill Dona Marta

A story of life and death that clearly reveals the underworld of Rio's criminal underworld.

To understand all this urban violence in Rio de Janeiro, it's necessary to understand how the criminals who impose terror on the city think and act. Abusado , a book-length report by Caco Barcellos, is a true lesson in the logic, intricacies, and modus operandi of the large criminal corporations that control drug trafficking and other criminal activities in the state. Through the story of Juliano VP (the code name of a well-known Rio drug trafficker)—his childhood, adolescence, entry into, and rise in the drug trade in the Santa Marta favela (in Botafogo, a middle-class neighborhood)—we gain a historical portrait of the occupation of the favela by the Comando Vermelho, the state's main criminal faction, and the implementation of its cruel discipline.