Brazil: The first Christmas of a mother who has lost a son

Carlos Eduardo Santos [pt] publishes a moving letter from a mother who has lost her son telling us about the first Christmas without him. Her 26 years old son was killed on a robbery in Recife, Brazil. She says: “Is it worth it to love this city? This state? This country? For together with this pain we have been feeling for 7 months grows the certainty of impunity”.

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