I want to start this manifesto with my most sincere condolences to request further 230 victims killed in the tragedy of Santa Maria in RS and families of the same.

It is sad to see that Brazil is hit by another tragedy that originated in incompetence, laziness and dishonesty in those responsible for public works, government and Brazilian society.
Lives of the people you cherish most are destroyed because of our "Brazilian way" to solve the country's problems.

On the evening of last Saturday (26.01.13) youths were victims of holocaust public that began in the corruption and indifference of the government in public, a fire caused by a disturbed person who was part of a show at a nightclub in Santa Maria - RS was initialized with a shot of a flag within the club. The flag of the fire came in contact with the circuit's acoustic show and coverage of the ceiling that was Styrofoam and foam, resulting in fire.
The fire caused panic among the young people at the club who attempted to leave, many were lost in the hallways, the bathrooms I thought others would be emergency exits and many never left the club because they were trapped (locked in the club, because the only way out that there was the entrance of the room and the windows were purposely locked by the owners).

The fire itself was not huge it could not have been deleted in a short time, firefighters arrived on the scene and quickly put out the fire in no time. So what caused so many deaths?

In fact according to the Fire Department Santa Maria - RS deaths of so many people were incurred due to a chemical reaction between substances flag, covering the ceiling that was Styrofoam and foam; material and acoustic system that produced a highly toxic gas killed by asphyxiation in a few seconds over 230 people (all aged 16 to 23 years old). According to them there were no cases of death by carbonization.
According to the account of survivor Matheus Vargas who was at the club when the fire started was installed an enormous panic in people who try to flee to escape the fire, there was much shouting and confusion. The club was a building complex with a single entry that is also out, with great internal space and hallways, there was no emergency exit many rushed to the bathrooms were thinking that emergency exits. What led many people to death.

And second Matheus Vargas shortly after the start of the fire was only way that the entrance of the building is opened and a time of a little more than 40 seconds, all the outputs were locked with the windows which turned the spot in HELL.

Many died in the bathrooms, hallways and the main hall suffocated by toxic gas exhaled by the fire, including several young minors died trying to escape the fire.
Yet in the words survivor, he said a girl died in his arms when the attempted rescue her and, more despair was so huge that the people crowded into the bathroom doors that a stack two feet tall with human bodies formed because the people who would die tumbled over each other (a sort of World War II Auschwitz, a concentration camp dead).

When firefighters entered the enclosure face a macabre scene, hundreds of dead bodies lying on the ground and was most impressive handsets of hundreds of victims killed playing because they were relatives of those who sought information with deceased relatives.
As more than 230 people died and 131 were injured in a manner so sudden?

According to the Fire Department Santa Maria - RS which hastened the deaths were:
 Possibly the club functioned without operational license from City Hall, a building unstructured;
 Too many people in a single environment without ventilation and enough space for many people, the capacity of the building was 1000 people, according to reports from survivors there were around 1500 people in the building, which resulted in mass casualties;
 The only way out was the building that was the very same input;
 The site owners closed their doors so that customers do not leave without paying.
Although our country is not attacked by suicide bombers in Gaza as a terrorist or as in the United States are victims of our own selfishness, dishonesty and lack of humanity that slowly destroys us with these misfortunes fruits of our popular and known "Brazilian way. "

How many people have to die to become aware that not only the Brazilian government more we must act responsibly and pay attention to what surrounds us.

A tragedy like this and others that not only surround the Brazilian past should teach us that to build any and all types of building have to take first place and the security of the variables that can jeopardize our life (Chaos Theory) implement solutions that simply solves part of the problem and leaves the other components of the same is being dishonest evolve with human life.

This tragedy and others is more a factor of negative repercussions for Brazil as reported on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, The New York Times and other sources of international media that comes our country as a dangerous place and sloppy with people's security and tourists in the country. Events like this leave no doubt as the Brazilian has much to learn from their mistakes if the Brazilian does not learn from those mistakes now doomed to repeat the same in future.

And more than ever we need to radically transform this society sick and alienated!

Signed: Writer, Designer, Ativist and Militant brazilian-american