Politics
Things Are So Dire in Brazil That Millions Are Refusing to Vote
In a country where casting a ballot is mandatory, more than 20 percent are likely to abstain.
Lindomar Nascimento in São Sebastião on Aug. 10.
Photographer: Andre Coelho/Bloomberg
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Augusto Silva and Lindomar Nascimento live in the town of São Sebastião on the outskirts of Brazil’s capital city, Brasília. Both are poor. Both are scarred by gun violence. And both are angry.
For one of them, this anger has hardened into political apathy: What’s the point of voting in next month’s presidential election? Silva asks. The whole system is rotten anyway.