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Not accurate imo. The tragedies in Aleppo have been going on for more than five years. Kids have been suffering severely. Certainly there are people who abhor the human tragedy taking place there as opposed to the politics that gets most of the focus. But most people put it out of mind until something like the picture of the five year old sitting in the ambulance hits a nerve. And then people react. Will they sustain the reaction. Highly doubtful. But during that reaction there is a change in the way people look at Syria that may or may not create substantive changes.That's the thing, Brazil's reputation is neither enhanced or damaged because of this on incident, because I have read plenty of other crime reports that were not fabricated. So, Brazil gets to state that it was right and the U.S. was wrong regarding Lochte, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. In the grand scheme of things, Brazil has just as many problems today as it did a week ago.
The same thing took place with the Lochte's false report. It crystallized the problem in Brazil. As an outsider I can support that crystallization because I think crime should be contained. But as a Brazilian trying to tackle their problems, and there are many trying to do this, just as there are many who are trying to prevent that from happening, the last thing I need is to deal with is another fire. If you think this is just about image, than your argument holds more validity. But if there is a genuine attempt to try and fix things then your argument loses validity.
I'm on the fence regarding this because for every person who likes to make a genuine commitment to improving the world there are people who are invested in keeping the status quo, or obsessed more about appearances than real quality of life, or so jaded in life that they want to destroy the world to make everyone equally miserable. And as I stated in a prior post, there appears to be a genuine attempt by people in Brazil to remove corruption from power. I hope they are successful. Lochte imo threw a big wrench into that outcome.