The Power of Power

"Although what was called urban disorder (crime, prostitution, vagrancy) was in fact a concern for the Frelimo government, since the establishment of the transitional government (September 1974), this book aims to show that the above aspects should be dealt with with with the implementation of Operation Production (1983), alone would not be sufficient to justify and legitimize a public policy, much less with an essentially coercive dimension. Operation Production was a policy that results more from Frelimo's government's perception of unproductive causality-crime prostitution, than necessarily from the problems mentioned. Seen in this way, it cannot be considered a measure resulting from a rational-methodical choice of a single individual, which is called "Guebuzation". But yes, a state machine. According to what is proposed here, Frelimo built the rational that led to the implementation of Operation Production".