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Dozens of people have died after heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides in Brazil’s southernmost state.

According to officials, 55 people are confirmed to have died, with another 74 missing in Rio Grande do Sul.

Nearly 25,000 residents have been forced to leave their homes since the storms began last Saturday, and at least half a…

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  1. This is only happening in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the south of my country. The situation here in Brazil is very complicated, imagine everything you have achieved in years, your house, your appliances disappearing when you manage to survive, you see the damage and everything

    Imagine every day you see on TV dead people being found by firefighters and images of houses being flooded and cars floating on the water.

    Now imagine a country with more than 200 million Christians and the country with the most Christians and religions being flooded if Our God is real This is just a Stage for us.

  2. the consequences of the wealthy Global North — North Americans and Europeans and their planet-killing corporations — refusing to change their oil and natural gas guzzling lifestyles. peripheral countries, especially in the Global South, are being subjected to the chaos created elsewhere.

  3. The state of Rio Grande do Sul is under water. Our president is comunist dictator and he does nothing. The people are saving the people.

  4. 435 ou of 497 citys have been flooded . There are flat earth believers talking about infrastructure that was not build to prevent this disaster and blah, blah, blah. Let me tell you that this kind of people are just the flat earth dummies spreading their nonsense ! There is no infrastructure that could be planned for the amount of rain that did fall in the rivers delta and in the valleys. My city alone is in the Rio Caí delta and in only five days, it rained 400mm per square meter !!! That accumulated from the previous entire month 483mm !! The problem is that all the other five main rivers deltas and valleys received stupid amounts of water also and that all happened in a period of 5 days !!

  5. I'm not afraid of the government so I speak Americans, and everyone else. this is a lie!! I'm from Rio Grande do Sul, and there are many more than 2,000 dead at the bottom of those waters, and inside their homes! Videos went viral of firefighters shocked, shaken, and perhaps even traumatized by the situation they were in, the stench was much more than a thousand dead, hundreds of hundreds… One of these cases, is of a firefighter who was with 4 children, a doll floating in the water, when the girls asked him to pick it up and bring it to them to play with, and when the man put both his hands out to pick it up, he came across a corpse!! It wasn't any doll, it was a baby approximately 5 months or 2 years old, which was floating completely lifeless. Something that made most of us cry, and ask each other what type of government doesn't take more qualified and useful measures to quickly help and support the people of Rio Grande do Sul. But unfortunately our president is an embarrassment, even for the country itself. guess why this is? they hide everything so that those outside you don't know about the lies of this nation; and begin to confront him by doubting the leadership of this irresponsible drunk. So I say, with tears in my eyes, our nation is lost. The Brazilian people had to accept this man as president even though they didn't have their vote. (Even because 80% of the Brazilian nation didn't vote for him) There is a lot of fraud and theft around here. please spread this information, Lula Inácio da Silva is a communist profiteer!

  6. They talked about this like they were discussing unfortunate weather. Carbon was only mentioned once, and the drivers of climate crisis (human made ones) were noted only by their absence.

  7. The devastation is really bad but you have to consider The corruption in Brazil The constructions are very inefective and the politicians for more than 30 years stealing from the people

  8. In the meantime, Madonna had a show in Copacabana, received 17 million from the government. And where is the help to the people in the South of Brazil???

  9. Well, I'll try to clarify some things for those who have doubts, firstly, Rio Grande do Sul has around 281,748 km², compared to Italy has around 302,073 km². Rio Grande do Sul has 497 cities, of which 417 were affected, some were literally wiped off the map, rescues are being carried out mainly by civilians, businesspeople, athletes and many others, think, several civilians in the middle of the flood making a human chain to tow a motorized canoe full of other civilians, a canoe that had its engine damaged while towing an inflatable boat with even more civilians! important teams such as surfer Pedro Scooby and his professional colleagues, businessman Pablo Marçal, several football players from nearby teams as well as all the civilians who are on the front line, in addition to them, we also have several influencers donating millionaire amounts of money to help during this catastrophe, in addition to all the money raised by ordinary Brazilians through donations. I say as a Brazilian citizen, the government is being incredibly inefficient! In the midst of so much shit going on, there are reports and documented cases of thieves stealing from people and breaking into houses to steal what was left by former residents. Cases of sexual abuse against minors inside shelters have also been reported!

  10. I am from Rio Grande do Sul (State that is affected) and thank god the region i live in wasnt affected, but my uncle lost everything, except his life of course, stuff are not going easy here

    (Obrigado a todos que doaram para ajudar-nos, mesmo não sendo afetado, sou grato que estão ajudando aqui, como disse acima, meu tio foi afetado e perdeu tudo, menos a vida, ele está bem pelo menos, só não sei onde ele está agora)