[robowombat]

Can you offer any explanation of why this has become more and more so in the last thirty years. Brazil has always been a place where it was easy to die but today it seems it is beyond reality. I know a fellow who married an upper middle class Brazilian woman from Sao Paulo and lived there for several years. I asked him about this and he just mumbled some embarrassed crap about poverty and oppression.

[AC86UT89]

The drug trade. Gangs. Extreme gap between rich and poor.

[Steely Tom]

Can you offer any explanation of why this has become more and more so in the last thirty years.

I only know what, not why. I could hazard a guess, but it would be completely unscientific and I have nothing to gain by putting it on the internet.

[x]

Can you offer any explanation of why this has become more and more so in the last thirty years.

I can only guess, but here goes:

The wealth gap in Brazil largely corresponds to the racial gap.

There may be an established understanding that using force is the way to get ahead.

Also the population in Brazil is younger than in the US or Europe.