[9], Rio's poor communities, the favelas, had been neglected for decades and were considered outside the control of the State. “My son went to Arizona to visit and he never came home,” Gonzalez said. They burned Lopes's eyes with a cigarette. [27] It was related that the traffickers had taken this man to the top of Vila Cruzeiro hill and incinerated him in the micro-ondas (microwave oven[3]) constructed in a rock formation. [1] Lopes was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 6th round, with the 191st overall selection, of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. [18], Days before this night, Lopes had confided to colleagues that he was feeling tired and wanted to take a break from the agitation and violence of the city and find a rural retreat somewhere where he could recuperate. [68], In January 2011, during the inauguration ceremony marking his reelection, Rio de Janeiro State Governor Sérgio Cabral mentioned Tim Lopes in his inaugural speech. Lopes also had a nineteen-year-old son, Bruno, from a previous marriage, with whom he maintained a father-son relationship. [25], Several Brazilian journalists visited these favelas in the days after the security forces took control and discussed what the changes meant. We're tired of interviewing the criminal on TV. as a warning insinuating that more reporters could be killed. Tim Lopes (born Arcanjo Antonino Lopes do Nascimento; November 18, 1950 – June 2, 2002) was a Brazilian investigative journalist and producer for the Brazilian television network Rede Globo. [50][51], Though a prominent journalist, Tim Lopes only became nationally known after his death in a crime that shocked the country.
He was taken into custody. [23] In a "macabre ritual" of violence,[10] using a samurai or a "ninja"-type sword, Elias Maluco cut off Lopes's hands, arms, and legs while Lopes was still alive. Tim Lopes was born Arcanjo Antonino Lopes do Nascimento in Pelotas, Brazil, the fourth child of a family of twelve. [39] Ratinho had been one of the traffickers featured in the "Big Drug Fair" report from the previous year, which had resulted in a period of police crackdowns.
March 7, 2015: 2B Tim Lopes assigned to Seattle Mariners.
[19][20], Residents were telling Lopes that girls from the local community who didn't participate in the baile funk were targeted for reprisals. [59], When a new public high school was built in the Complexo do Alemão, it was named Colégio Tim Lopes. In addition to drug selling, in certain favelas, traffickers were sexually exploiting minors from the community at their baile funk,[4] sometimes forcing girls to put on explicit shows by having sex out in the open against a wall at these events.
The funeral was attended by Rio Governor Benedita da Silva. Seabra wrote in response to Lopes's death that the culture of crime reporting at that time needed to change: "We're tired of giving the criminals the front page. [3], On September 30, 2016, Lopes was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays as the PTBNL in a trade in exchange for Pat Venditte. Following the end of the war, it was the start of the Baby Boomer years and technology advancements such as the jet engine, nuclear fusion, radar, rocket technology and others later became the starting points for Space Exploration and Improved Air Travel. [10] One of the dealers arrested, known as Ratinho (Little Rat), would subsequently be involved in Lopes's death.
Gomes concluded in his investigation that Lopes had not filmed at the baile funk in Vila Cruzeiro that night.
)[10], In June 2012, ten years after Tim Lopes's death, the Complexo do Alemão began to be under the umbrella of eight new Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) at the predetermined conclusion of the military's presence. On November 25, 2010, Rio's special forces battalion (BOPE), supported by other police units, entered Vila Cruzeiro in Penha via Brazilian Marine armored transport to various points within the slum and ultimately took control of the hill and the surrounding area of Penha. “I want the truth and I want accountability,” Gonzalez said, though she has not yet decided if she will take legal action.
His awareness of drugs and crime plaguing the city, and the lack of social services for youth to deal with these problems, seemed to drain him of energy. It's been reported that the documentary begins with an opening scene recounting the torture of Tim Lopes.
“His boys meant the world to him, he lived for them,” Rodriguez said in a Facebook message to The Arizona Republic.
This action was in response to attacks throughout Rio by the criminal faction headquartered there.
Lopez was Gonzalez’s youngest son. He worked graveyard shifts at another job so he could complete school during the day, according to Rodriguez. He spent the 2015 season with the Bakersfield Blaze, hitting .276/.340/.362/.702 with 2 home runs and 49 RBI. [62] Military and civil police units (which included CORE, Batalhão de Choque, Federal Police, among others) then took over the territory of the network of favelas comprising the Complexo do Alemão with support from the Brazilian Armed Forces. [56][57], Tim Lopes was honored in a São Paulo carnaval (carnival) procession in 2003 by the samba school, Acadêmicos do Tucuruvi, with the theme "Do not shut my voice," a tribute to a free press, with lyrics such as, "the truth Tim-Tim by Tim-Tim," in reference to his nickname.