Sublime

Dead J and

meticulous

The documentary Candamo,

In São Paulo there was a similar connection between former guerrillas and crime, although here the story was slightly different. During the 1980s, as the economy stagnated in the wake of the debt crisis of the early part of the decade, crime soared, with a number of locally based gangs vying for control of the drugs rackets. The result was a rapid

in the

later, cynical intelligence operatives.

This atomization of the nation—the hunkering of the population into a thousand premodern fiefs—proved to be ideal conditions for incubating a singularly virulent strain of terrorism that would shortly capture the attention of the world, and most especially the United States.