PhD in Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean from the University of Brasilia. Director of the Maria Quitéria Institute and co-founder of the Brazil-Haiti Initiative. Post-doctoral studies at the State University of Haiti.
International headlines about the invasion of Haiti's National Penitentiary, in an attack attributed to Barbecue's leadership, resulting in the release of more than 3,000 inmates reinforce the idea of absolute chaos and disorder in a Caribbean country of most African descent population.