We all know why Brazil doesn't work
Many Brazilians ask in front of a mirror: "Why Brazil doesn't work?"
Usually, those who ask have little to complain about. His life is better here, easier, more abundant, with greater access to the best the country has to offer to its citizens, than it would be if he lived in another middle-income economy or even in a wealthy nation, even if having equivalent income. The terrible income distribution explains part of this story.
Evidently, here, everyone, poor and rich, complains about the extreme violence that claims about 60,000 lives annually - in 2018 (last available data), there were 57,956 deaths, but, as there is something rotten about the statistics, since in recent years there has been an exponential increase in violent deaths without a determined cause, the toll is underestimated.
The contingent of people who leave home on a certain day to die seems like a kind of statistical curse, since, with few variations, it is repeated year after year. Curse? Devilish predestination of a people condemned to misery and suffering? Don't believe that. There is nothing intangible in the statistics of violence in the country called Brazil.
Official data show that 75.7% of Brazilians murdered two years ago were black - among women, the percentage is 68%, informs Atlas of Violence 2020, prepared by Ipea based on the occurrences registered by state secretariats of public security in 2018. More than half (29,064) were young people aged 15 to 29 years.
In 2018, a woman was murdered in this country every two hours, adding up to 4,519 victims. Let us look more closely at the numbers and in a longer period of time, to try to find a clue that points to some trend of this terrible national malaise: between 2008 and 2018, while the homicide rate of non-black women fell 11.7%, murders of black women increased by 12.4%.
The summary of violence in this immense territory is as follows: homicides mainly victimize men (91.8% of cases), young people (53.5%), blacks (75.7%), people with low education (74.3% of the victimized men have only seven years of study) and single (80.4% of the total number of men murdered). The main instrument of aggression is the firearm, used in 77.1% of the cases of death of men and in 53.7% of the cases of death of women.
Let's face it: the numbers are amazingly rational: Brazilian society is indifferent to a true genocide of young people, mostly, black and poor. Is it difficult to know what is the true monstrosity that explains this...
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