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Oil Prices threaten Iraq's recovery, Border Battles over the New Year and the Media has it's panties in a wad over Brazil's new President. We'll break it down in fifteen minutes here on the Hot Zone.
Hi Everybody. I'm Chuck Holton. It's thursday, the 3rd of January, and the new year is already off to a great start. Two presidents took office in Latin America - in Mexico and Brazil, and they are pursuing two radically different agendas. In Brazil, former paratrooper Jair Bolsonaro was inaugurated monday and is immediately ready to make a decree that will make it easier for Brazilian citizens to protect themselves with a firearm. He is also committing his administration to eradicating what he calls the marxist influences from brazilian government and academia. All of this is causing the liberal media to practically set their hair on fire. The Huffington Post is running an article which claims that democracy has failed in Brazil, even though the elections there were free and fair and there are no claims otherwise.
Brazil has suffered under marxist ideology in the past - it's recent left-wing president Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva is currently serving a twelve-year sentence for corruption, and under his administration the government pursued the policy we see so often from the left of making it's citizens more vulnerable and then claiming that doing so makes them safer. Under Lula's administration hundreds of thousands of legally-purchased guns were confiscated and destroyed, which left only criminals armed and led to one of the highest murder rates outside of an active war zone anywhere on the planet. Gangs took over the poorer communities and extracted a terrible price on the people who live there. Medical clinics closed in many communities because the streets were too violent for doctors to get to work, and tourism suffered greatly. I visited Rio De Janeiro last april and this is what I found:
[rio beach stand up]
Brazil was really the poster child for all of the restrictions on private gun ownership that are routinely called for here in the United States. All those "common sense gun laws" like universal background checks, age restrictions, standard capacity magazine bans and high taxes on ammunition failed to stop the bloodbath that has become the norm on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Now, Brazilian citizens have been rushing to get firearms training in anticipation of finally being able to protect their families from the out of control crime in their neighborhoods. But they are going to need some new gun ranges with some new guns - I visited a gun range outside of Rio de Janeiro when I was there. Here's what that looked like.
[gun range stand up] C0004.MP4
One would hope that once President Bolsonaro loosens restrictions on gun ownership in Brazil, he'll also make it easier for guns to be imported, because the high cost of the guns in circulation means that currently guns are a rich man's sport - that is, only people with plenty of disposable income can afford to purchase one. Whether or not that was the intent of the previous administrations, the upshot is that the people who most need self-protection - the single mothers and people who live in poorer neighborhoods - are least able to get a gun for self defense.
One interesting side note is that one of the architects for Brazil's failed gun confiscation scheme was a guy named Pedro Abramovay, who served as the Brazilian minister of justice under the corrupt administration of Lula da Silva. It's worth pointing out that Abramovay's new job is working for none other than George Soros, the billionaire financier whose open society foundation funds lots of left-wing causes, from unfettered migration to gun control in the United States.
President Bolsonaro has committed to eradicating the Marxist influence from Brazilian society. But those Marxists aren't going away. Instead, they appear to be, at least in some sense, setting their sights on the United States and other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Now let's turn to Mexico. Their new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a mirror image to Jair Bolsonaro. While he's also a populist, but on the other side of the spectrum. AMLO is the first leftist president Mexico has elected in almost 70 years. And he ran on a pro-migrant platform, raising the minimum wage and going easier on criminals accused of drug trafficking. From what I understand about Mexican politics, that last one might just be why he was allowed to win. There are a lot of experts who believe that the Mexican government is in reality just an arm of the drug cartels. At any rate, AMLO has had his hands full with tens of thousands of Central American Migrants camped out on both his southern border and his northern border. On New Year's eve there was a different kind of fireworks show in Tij
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