'Brazil is at war': election plays out amid homicidal violence

[Judi Lynn]

Latin America’s largest democracy suffered a record 63,880 homicides last year and the phenomenon is driving some to support the hardline policies of candidate Jair Bolsonaro

by Tom Phillips in Feira de Santana

Thu 4 Oct 2018 01.00 EDT

Francine Farias had just completed a census of her tumbledown favela on the outskirts of one of the world’s most violent cities when she heard a volley of gunfire and her count was rendered suddenly out of date.

One unpaved street away, her nextdoor neighbour, 17-year-old Ruan Patrick Ramos Cruz, lay dead in the dirt after being repeatedly shot in the head and chest by unknown assassins.

“First I heard four [shots], then two more,” recalled Farias, a community leader in Loteamento Alameda das Árvores, a rundown 288-home settlement on the southern fringes of Feira de Santana.

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Many are horrified at the rise of a pro-torture populist notorious for his vicious and incendiary remarks about women, black people, indigenous communities, human rights and Brazil’s LGBT community.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/04/brazil-violence-election-jair-bolosonaro-fernando-haddad

[Judi Lynn]

1. More brilliance from "Shoot'em up, bang bang" Bolsonaro:

No candidate, however, has talked tougher than Bolsonaro, whose mano dura plans to throw “everything” at the “hoodlums” have struck a chord among millions of voters.

“You can’t treat this kind of person as if they were a normal human being … You’ve got to shoot. If you don’t shoot you’ll never sort all this out,” the rightwing populist said in one interview.

It will take a while, but this monster is going to fall, for real. He doesn't deserve to breathe, not to mention govern the country. Just like the trash we have here.

Fascists are so easy to spot. Their rancid, despicable personalities ALWAYS inform human beings who they are. Every word they speak, or write, smells horrible.