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Violence against children in Brazilian Amazon worse than elsewhere in the country

Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 21:56 UTC
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A report released Thursday by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety (FBSP) showed that Children and adolescents in the Legal Amazon were exposed to different types of violence with relevant particularities compared to the rest of the South American country. Read full article

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  • Brasileiro

    Bolsonaro's Nazi government favored illegal mining in the Amazon with thousands of dredges and evil men who steeled rivers and dumped mercury into the rivers and streams. These same gold smugglers invaded Indigenous villages at night to plunder them and rape the women.

    It is estimated that more than 3,000 Indigenous children died from mercury poisoning and starvation during the Nazi regime here in Brazil.

    Mr. Bolsonaro, the leader of the Brazilian Nazis, is currently defended by the Nazis of the Evil Empire led by Donald Trump, known by the nickname “Laranjão.”

    Aug 15th, 2025 - 09:51 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Jack Bauer

    Brasshole,

    In case you haven't realized, the above article refers to sexual violence in the Amazon, not mining ......but, as usual, even your rant about the mining is all wrong...where do you get your information from ? perhaps leftist sites ?

    Anyway, fyi, illegal mining in the Amazon, with the consequent pollution of rivers etc, started in the 1980s, and carried on growing steadily up to 2010 (during the PT and nine-finger's 2 administrations ), taking a leap in growth during DumbAss Dilma's administration, which ended 2016, with her impeachment....

    ...so your attempt to blame Bolsonaro for the illegal mining is just another of your leftist moves to spread fake information.

    Go back to school, and learn some facts.

    Aug 15th, 2025 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    USACuzão

    Bolsonaro's Nazi regime and its cohorts dismantled IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources), ICMBio (Brazilian Institute of Biodiversity), transferred Federal Police officers who insisted on investigating illegal mining, and prohibited the Air Force from blowing up airstrips in the middle of the forest. If this isn't complicity in the crimes committed in the Amazon, I don't know what is.

    Remember that the Nazi regime's Environment Minister was Mr. Ricardo Salles, a notorious timber smuggler who caused deforestation in the Amazon to an unprecedented level. This deforestation destroyed the equivalent of half the territory of Bolivia.

    Remember, you too are complicit in all these crimes against Brazil and its people.

    https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/maquiavel/ricardo-salles-vira-reu-acusado-de-favorecer-contrabando-de-madeira/

    Aug 16th, 2025 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • imoyaro

    Once again, Brasso let's get something straight. YOU are a self proclaimed Nationalist AND a self proclaimed Socialist. Not only that, you are in Russia, which has become a right wing dictatorship,and even have a female government “handler.” As far as I am concerned you are walking around with a swastika tattooed on your forehead, which really makes you stand out...

    Aug 16th, 2025 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Brasshole,

    It is clear that you, like most leftists, cannot handle the truth. Your arguments don't stand up to even the slightest scrutiny.

    I am not going to defend the Bolsonaro administration because, yes, it did screw up its fair share of things - under the guidance of Ricardo Salles - but I do not recall any official accusations regarding “timber smuggling” (another of your lies ?) ....anyway, I must inform you that the destruction of the rain forest - through deforestation and fire - reached its peak under the first three PT administrations, which is still true today, under their 4th term....

    Don't you ever question why the destruction occurs mainly under PT regimes, and in PT's electoral strongholds ? Don't bother replying, an honest answer is way above your brain grade.

    Just a few more questions, nothing to do with the above, but very relevant in Brazil today....just to get an idea of how your brainless head reaches its conclusions...
    What do you think of the way in which your idol, Nine-fingers, is handling the tariff crisis with the USA ?
    What do you think of nine-finger's name calling and shows of uncontrolled hysterical threats (during his weekly rants to an audience of the most faithful Petistas ever ) against the world's largest economy, and its leader ? (he sounds like Nicolas Maduro) ;
    Don't you think that his approach to diplomacy regarding the USA is doing more harm than good ?

    In my humble opinion, it reminds me of a chihuahua yapping at a pitbull....LOL !

    And, isn't it lovely to see the STF's authoritarian judge being sanctioned by the Magnitsky Law ?

    What about Padilha's whining over the loss of his and his family's American visas ? I really can't understand his ridiculous reaction, after all, why would a leftist politician, who is part of, and defends an authoritarian, leftist regime, want to go to a capitalist paradise, where there is freedom of speech ?
    Why doesn't he take his family vacation in Venezuela, or Cub

    Aug 16th, 2025 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    USACuzão

    There is nothing the US can do to colonize Brazil again. The US is becoming increasingly irrelevant to Brazil, whether in trade or geopolitics.

    Brazil is the B in BRICS and always will be. We don't want arrogant people who think they're the best thing in the world around us Brazilians.

    In reality, the US is a corrupt and indebted country, where economic life revolves around a rigged casino. They produce very little, almost nothing. They depend on the world for almost everything. The US doesn't even have a military force capable of competing technologically with Russia or China. In fact, the only thing left for you North-Americans is decadence and the ever-tightening embrace of poverty.

    If the US could be represented by an animal, it would be the sloth, not the eagle.

    You're so stupid that you had all the power in the world to unify the Americas under your leadership and threw it away. Now you want to force us into subservience. The era of F.D. Roosevelt, who conquered Brazil with a fraternal and friendly embrace, who transformed Brazil into an ally and made us send soldiers to fight in Italy, who even obtained authorization to establish military bases in the Northeast, seems to be over. Today, the proto-dictator Laranjão is the polar opposite of Roosevelt.

    It's no coincidence that everything is as it is!

    Do me a favor, before you write nonsense, research more about Ricardo Salles.

    Aug 16th, 2025 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Brasshole,

    Anyone who reads your garbage, must seriously doubt whether you managed to complete primary school...

    First of all, I don't see how US could ever “colonize Brazil again”, given that Brazil was colonized by (only) the Portuguese...

    Second, your statement that the USA is irrelevant to Brazil, in trade or in geopolitics, is laughable....it is Brazil that is becoming irrelevant - to the world !....thanks to the semi-illiterate, ignorant, nine-fingers.

    The B in BRICS nowadays, could well be many things, but out of respect for Brazil, as a people, I won't say what.

    The USA is corrupt ? sounds like the pot “trying” to call the kettle black......Brazil has always had severe corruption problems, but never on the scale that the PT and nine-fingers took it to....just a few examles : - Mensalão (2007), Petrolão (2013/14), enormous theft from the Pension Funds of State-run companies, resulting in humongous deficits, theft of billions from the National Social Security Fund (INSS) which started under Dilma and resurfaced in 2023/25, involving the Union in which nine-finger's brother is VP - and now being swept under the carpet.......I could fill pages with these corruption scandals, all of which, and always, have had PTs finger in them.....maybe that's how nine-fingers lost his finger..

    Your comment on the US military is absurd, no comment needed.

    Brasil's national animal is the Burro, inspired by nine-fingers.

    Brazil's participation in WWII was to be expected, given that German submarines were sinking Brazilian ships off the Brazilian coast. Or do you think that the USA should have defended Brazil without it having to lift a finger ?

    So, with all the crap going on currently in Brazil, the doing of nine-fingers and the STF, it is indeed no coincidence that things are the way they are...

    Brasshole, take look at Venezuela....that's where Brazil is heading under nine-fingers.

    Aug 19th, 2025 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Esteban Domingo Fernandez

    Jack, ignore him. every time he posts its the same old silly nonsense.

    America is an evil empire
    Putin and Russia are fantastic
    BRICS is going to take over the world,
    NATO is going to invade Brazil,
    US cant compete with China and Russia

    laughed so much at his last comments, he must be taking magic mushrooms.
    he is not a leftist but an out and out commie full of nothing but hate.
    probably half a dozen people read his nonsense if that

    Aug 19th, 2025 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Esteban,

    You are right.

    His coments are so disconnected from reality, that one wonders if it's really possible for someone to display such ignorance.

    At least his comments provoke a good laugh....the same sort you read on social networks, bias and ignorance prevail.

    Aug 20th, 2025 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • imoyaro

    Hey Brasso, wonder if Putin realizes you're one of the “Boys From Brazil,” and you are being groomed for some “higher” purpose?”

    Aug 20th, 2025 - 11:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    imoyaro,

    It's possible....after all, he has proved he is qualified - a Master's degree in ignorance.

    Aug 23rd, 2025 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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