Violence operates as a “hidden tax” that costs Latin America 3.5% of its GDP and chokes investment, productivity, and development, making security the region’s major outstanding economic policy.

Latin America is one of the most peaceful regions without wars between nations, but also one of the most violent in the world. Without declared war, its cities register more deaths than many countries in armed conflicts.

The context in which these attacks have occurred favors their normalization due to the neglect of hate speech delivered by public figures of the extreme right.

Coauthors Bruno Ferreira and Ester Athanásio According to a recent survey, hate speech spread on the Internet has increased in Brazil, with special emphasis on religious discrimination, xenophobia and neo-Nazism.

Coauthor André Bakker da Silveira Seventy-five years on from the birth of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is astonishing to note that...

Coauthors Luís Carlos Petry and André Bakker da Silveira Some children and young people frustrated with their social and emotional conditions, having lost all hope, seek refuge in misogynistic groups that reinforce their feelings.