{"id":36344,"date":"2018-08-04T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36344"},"modified":"2018-08-04T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T13:05:30","slug":"im-totally-freaked-out-brazils-elite-fleeing-bloodshed-and-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36344","title":{"rendered":"“I’m Totally Freaked Out”: Brazil’s Elite Fleeing Bloodshed And Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I’m Totally Freaked Out”: Brazil’s Elite Fleeing Bloodshed And Chaos<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Amid the economic, political, and social collapse, Brazil has been described by many as being in the midst of a \u201czombie apocalypse\u201d as years of corruption and violence spectacularly implodes all at once.<\/p>\n

Horrified by the out of control violence and pessimistic about the nation\u2019s political and economic outlook, thousands of wealthy Brazilians are now fleeing the country.<\/p>\n

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Thiago Lacerda, a high-profile actor, is one of the thousands of celebrities, bankers, lawyers and affluent Brazilians considering emigration before the next round of turmoil.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m totally freaked out by what\u2019s been happening, especially here in Rio [Rio de Janeiro],\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Mr. Lacerda told\u00a0The Wall Street Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 40-year-old actor said he has considered moving his family to Europe for the safety of his three children. \u201cIn several years, they\u2019re going to want to go out, to start dating, without worrying about getting shot.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Naercio Menezes Filho, director of the center for public policy at Insper, a S\u00e3o Paulo business school, commented on the situation and pointed out \u2014 the elite fleeing the country is the newest trend amid the threat of gang violence and economic instability.<\/p>\n

According to a study published in June by Brazilian polling agency Datafolh, about 52 percent of the wealthiest Brazilians \u2014 those with a monthly income of more than $2,500 \u2014 want to emigrate, while 56 percent of college graduates have plans on leaving the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hope that Brazilians once had in their country has gone out the window, and many people are now reaching the conclusion that things are unlikely to change in the next few years,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> said Mr. Menezes Filho.<\/p>\n

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“I’m Totally Freaked Out”: Brazil’s Elite Fleeing Bloodshed And Chaos Amid the economic, political, and social collapse, Brazil has been described by many as being in the midst of a \u201czombie apocalypse\u201d as years of corruption and violence spectacularly implodes all at once. Horrified by the out of control violence and pessimistic about the nation\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[90,4075,150,1769,1539,18620,854,4318],"class_list":["post-36344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-brazil","tag-chaos","tag-collapse","tag-corruption","tag-emigration","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-violence","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36345,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36344\/revisions\/36345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}