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In Brazil, for nine decades, there was a mental hospital, the Hospital Colónia de Barbacena, where marginalized people, gays, women, political enemies of the elite, homeless alcoholics, unwanted children, wanderers, epileptics were locked up next to people diagnosed with mental health problems and all received the same brutal treatment instituted by a system that didn't want them. More than 60,000 people died in what has been called the Brazilian Holocaust. These social sanitizations continue to exist, subjectivities are killed, blacks, the poor, refugees, women, transvestites, dreamers and activists are killed.