Brazil politicians convicted for ordering homicide of black activist councilor

Brazil’s Supreme Court docket on Wednesday convicted two former lawmakers of ordering the 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco, a preferred black activist whose homicide uncovered deep ties between politics and arranged crime. Franco, an LGBTQ activist who grew up in a favela and have become an outspoken critic of Rio’s highly effective militia teams, was 38 when she was gunned down within the metropolis middle alongside her driver, Anderson Gomes.