Brazil was under military dictatorship in that year, many people disappeared in that time, especially if you looked a tad like a commie.

Actually violence is declining in São Paulo, we are one of the safest states, I was suprised by this tho, must be the Olympics, there was a wave os kidnapping in the 2000's, nowadays is not that common though, it stopped because the organized crime (pcc) deemed it too violent and less profiting then drug dealing,…