>> Are we getting accustomed to this type of thing?!
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>Hey Russel.
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>Funny you say that, as I'm always amazed of how we face some things after a while, they just start sounding like normal. You might have heard of the many atrocities that go on around my place, and it is amazing on how we just watch these news on TV at breakfast and act as if they were normal.
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>Do we just accommodate to that?

I know South America has its issues, but it's hard to keep up with the "status" of each country . . . meaning the level of democracy, freedom, security, etc. I was thinking Brazil was fairly high on that meter.