Brazil has seen a spike in domestic violence in the past few months during unrest following the contested elections that sent far-left socialist Lula da Silva back to the presidency. Unfortunately, this has included some mass shootings and other forms of attacks at schools, with a dozen of them taking place since last April. One of the latest included four children being killed in a daycare center in Blumenau by a man wielding an ax. Now the government is taking action in a number of ways in an effort to calm people’s fears. Some of those actions seem sensible, while others are blatantly authoritarian in nature. For one thing, they have “rounded up” and jailed hundreds of people for engaging in “hate speech” online. (Associated Press)Read More
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