What I found: 180 deaths — 180 people killed by an angry crowd
That’s 1 every 2 days
I wrote about that in the article linked below (keep in mind: the year hadn’t ended yet)
2/13
https://t.co/LwOST2qJf0
The rise of @jairbolsonaro was predictable.
— Brian Winter (@BrazilBrian) October 6, 2018
Brazilians have been craving "law & order" for years, but their democratic leaders largely ignored them. I started writing about this in Nov 2015, after I was caught in a fatal shootout in the Amazon 1/?
One thing I've been noticing about responses to today's column is that many people still don't get how strong the forces behind regional divergence are, and how hard to reverse 1/ https://t.co/Ft2aH1NcQt
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 20, 2018