Are we next? Disturbing Rise in Violence Against Activists in Brazil

[L. Coyote]

What effect will Trump have as he lashes out against political opposition and legal investigations? Have his actions already increased violence against minorities?

Disturbing Rise in Violence Against Activists in Brazil: Report
7 July 2017

“It all starts with the movement toward an agribusiness and large enterprise based development model,” Alice de Marchi, a researcher said according to Brasil de Fato.

According to a report by the Brazilian Committee for Human Rights Defenders, violence against human rights activists in Brazil has been growing at a disturbing rate in recent years, particularly since the unelected President Temer took office.

According to the report, in the last year alone the deaths of 66 activists were reported. Before 2017 had reached its halfway mark, 42 murders had been recorded, a trend which the Committee's Land Rights coordinator said was growing “exponentially.”

The report also discusses the sharp rise in other increasingly sophisticated forms of violence, threats, arrests, torture, harrassment by state and private security forces, and spying that has been perpetrated against activists and social movement leaders in 2016 and 2017.

The violence toward activists first became a trend in 2015, and worsened significantly in 2016 and 2017.

The report does not hold back in pointing out that the violence is a direct result of structural changes that have taken place since Michel Temer assumed the presidency after the parliamentary ousting of President Dilma Rousseff, leading to an increasingly unstable situation for social movement leaders. .............

[hack89]

1. Brazil is off the charts when it comes to violence in general

I just think violence is how they deal with most disputes down there.

Hard to see it happening here.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. We're headed for third-world status as a nation. That's probably part of the 3rd world package.

We'll know we have arrive when elections are replaced by coups.

[pangaia]

4. In that case, I guess we have arrived.

[L. Coyote]

6. Dingh, ding, ding, we have a winner.

[roamer65]

3. No. The IC is not on the side of our tinpot shithead.

I do think we are at risk of a military coup d'etat right now. Can't say I would be against one, as long free elections were scheduled for 2018.

[Iliyah]

5. You have NPR, NRA and t-rump openly advocating violence

Along with politicians openly advocating white power. White nationalist, KKK raising their ugly heads, and t-rump administration not investigating them and giving them a pass. Destruction of the USA institutions, one of them is congress, etc.

[Initech]

7. Also The Proud Boys, III%ers, Oath Keepers, Bundys, Infowars, Project Veritas, and Antifa.

Anyone who does not protest peacefully or protests with the intent to disrupt is an enemy to democracy.