belongs to the hurricane
Literal fire is a good bet.
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Russian diplomat disarms and kills assailant during Rio Olympics.
Sheer gold, even outside Soviet Russia, thief is killed by you.
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A procrastination in of itself
'Diplomat', sure.
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Pronounced YAK-you-luss
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Funny thing is, he was a Brazilian lawyer trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu who just happened to work for the Russian embassy. Not some FSB hardass, just a local showing the foreign tourists appropriate Rio mugging protocol. 
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Um. Wow.
Final Fantasy, Foreign Policy, and Bollywood. Helluva combo, that...
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The Economist - The world’s most violent cities: South America leads the rank
VENEZUELA is in turmoil. Tanking oil prices have taken a heavy toll on its income, along with years of economic mismanagement by the government. Inflation is running at nearly 200%—the highest rate in the world—according to the IMF, and a week ago it was awarded another dismal accolade. A ranking of the world's most violent cities by CCSP-JP, a Mexican NGO, reports that Venezuela's capital Caracas had the highest murder rate in the world last year. Some caution should be used when reading the ranking, which applies to cities with 300,000 people or more, and does not count war zones or cities with unavailable data. It is also notoriously difficult to compare crime statistics within countries, let alone across them. Murder statistics are usually supplied by police or from death registers derived from health-agency data. In countries with fewer resources the data are therefore less reliable. CCSP-JP uses estimates* in such cases, and cities with good records may therefore suffer from their efficiency.
Nevertheless, it is clear that Latin America is particularly blighted by violence. All but eight of the 50 worst cities on the list are to be found in Latin America and the Caribbean. Murders in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, have almost doubled in a year to 1,900 in a city of 1.8m people, mainly as a result of the government ending a truce with drug gangs. The country’s national statistics also bear out this grim record; it has surpassed Honduras as the country with the world's highest murder rate. The numbers from Brazil are especially bleak, some 21 of its cities now feature on the list, up from 14 five years ago. Yet there are some glimmers of optimism. The number of Mexican cities in the ranking has fallen from 12 to five over the same period. Colombia’s progress towards peace is reflected in the figures; its second city, Medellín, had a murder rate of 70 in 2011 but no longer features at all. San Pedro Sula in Honduras, formerly the worst city for several years running, saw murders nearly halve.
Cities from only two countries outside Latin American and the Caribbean occupy places on the list; the United States and South Africa. Four American cities from the previous year remain, lead by St Louis, where murders rose slightly in 2015. Baltimore has seen the largest rise, from 40th to 19th. For cities in the world's biggest economy, this list is very poor company to be keeping indeed.
See an updated version of the ranking using new data here.
- For example, Caracas's rate of 120 per 100,000 people (3,900 murders in a population of 3.3m) is derived from counting bodies in the city’s morgue, which covers a slightly larger area than the city itself, and an assumption that 80% of these are the result of homicide.
edited 28th Aug '16 6:02:34 PM by AngelusNox
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Man, no one cares about Bolivia
Final Fantasy, Foreign Policy, and Bollywood. Helluva combo, that...
I'm not yet aware of the context of that murder, hence why I haven't talked about it.
Bolivia is a mining country to a point and the overall situation of mineworkers is fairly close to that of a mining slave in terms of life quality and pay. I am guessing that this has bred some rather extreme political stances among them.
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Yup. I can fully understand the emotional logic behind the whole kidnap-kill route to vendetta justice/ protest in this case.
Not that I'm condoning it, but... the working conditions imposed from above practically guarantees desperate acts like this from breaking out. -_-
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Dilma's situation about the definitive Impeachment doesn't look good.
No reported there but she looked after Collor to support her, which is a president who was also impeached due to his incompetence motivated by incredibly stupid economic policies.
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Dilma is officially removed from office. The vote was 60-21.
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Wow. So the president really did get removed.
......So....who's going to take the place?
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Michel Temer.
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Well, here's hoping he does a better job.
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And now comes the time of madness and disdain.
edited 31st Aug '16 7:07:42 PM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
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I ain't even mad.
Not only it was predictable but I can't imagine things getting better with her back on the presidency.
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I don't expect things to get any better with Temer either.
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Temer is a crook and as guilty as Dilma is, but Dilma's austerity measures and tax increases combined with an "I don't how what I am doing" economic policy would certainly make things worse than they already are. Essentially no one in the private sector both consumer and investors were willing to spend money on the economy because no one was sure of what to expect besides more taxes and the government changing the interest rates constantly.
That is without the whole congress being hell bent in undermining her, if she returned to the presidency, she'd have to spend all her energy trying to stay there for the remainder of her term instead of working out to unfuck the country, which she failed spectacularly during the first year of her short short term.
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Now the 3 most bankrupt countries in South America recalled their embassies in Brasil.
I have yet to read a good explanation for why taking Dilma away from power and yet allowing her to be elected for public office in the short term future was an unhypocritical thing that happened.
Besides São Paulo, are there any other cities where the protests turned a bit violent?
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Rio, but things always turn violent in Rio.
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use political terms to describe, not insult
Can I bet that Brazil lights on figurative or literal fire?