Since becoming the President of Brazil in 2019, Jair Bolsonaro has signed decrees to get tough on drugs and relax gun laws. But has it worked? Not really.
This is how Brazil’s deadly drug wars have been fuelled by a president who thinks the solution is to throw more guns at the problem.
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