That makes four of us

I believe that photograph is from 1999 when he got arrested. He was sentenced to death in 2000, so that’s over 20 years waiting. And yes, obesity is becoming a problem inside prisons too (prisonlegalnews.org).

That bad, huh?

Interesting. Maybe they just don’t want to be involved in another dictatorship just yet?

That’s what I would have thought.

I was under the impression that Bolsorano had more support from the armed forces. I also always thought about Brazilian armed forces to lean more towards conservatism. But then again, I’m not Brazilian, so I don’t have the full context.

I am more surprised the Army and the Air Force noped out of that one. Not so much about the Navy’ s response though…

This is very interesting, at least for me as a Latin American but not from Brazil. I wonder whether the Army and Air Force want to distance themselves from politics in general, or if they have an issue with Bolsorano (or maybe the Navy)?

pretty much exclusively white collar criminals.

Very much so. It would be hard to believe they would do it themselves. However, enrolling the right assistance should not be too difficult for them. They even have access to more options than the average business executive.

They went to business school, not the military.

They are not military, but they have plenty of contacts there. Boeing is a big player in the military industry, they certainly know a lot of people in that world, both in government positions and the private sector.

They don’t have gang or organized crime affiliations.

Several of them don’t, but organized crime is within reach. Illegal recreational drugs are not uncommon in the business world. Dealers are more often than not connected to the organized crime. Networking in that world is something within business people’s skills.

Hey, who knows, maybe some of those execs started working many years ago as humble machine gun and bazooka salespeople. And who knows what kind of interesting characters they met during those days. While totally not burying their heads into a mountain of white powder sitting in the middle of the table.

driving him to suicide is much more likely.

It is very likely. High stress would have played against him if he was being bullied or threatened. Also, less involved than having them murdered.

it seems like the damage his death does is much higher than the damage his testimony would have done.

Depends on what you consider damage here. The testimony could have been perceived as a threat to important business deals (and to bonuses). It is not infrequent to see executives caring only about their profits, even in detriment of the company as a whole.

You can still be silenced like a few US presidents. Or even blown up with explosives. Even the government pulled that one on those anarchists in Philadelphia. Because wiping out your entire neighborhood to get rid of you could very well be on the table.

Your guess is as good as mine.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, from the rest of us.

No judgement to you all from me. War is a conductive environment for extremism. War is hell, after all.

This is good. Thanks a lot for sharing!

the solution in a mass shooting event

Is obviously to bring more guns.
/s

Pretty much like every other politician, except that he is open and honest about it, unlike most of his colleagues.

Commonly genocide is associated with race in media, but the legal definition is broader in the UN Genocide Convention: “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. The wealthy can be easily associated with specific national groups. Check the case of Pol-Pot en Cambodia for a rather extreme example.

Fair

Not really. The war in Gaza is unpopular among the population, but there is pressure for him to send aid to Israel. There are not many ways to slime that one out and have a chance to win the upcoming election. Speak loudly what the masses want to hear, do what he needs to appease the more powerful people who can screw him over.

He’s a politician after all, his priority is to maintain power at home, not to stop the war in Gaza.