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  1. Cheers Max. There was a committed team behind it. You might like some of the other visual investigations (there's a playlist on the nytimes YouTube channel)
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  2. Feel better!
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  3. Hi, Felipe, I’m the reporter who appeared in the video. I appreciate your note and others here, and now that Bolsonaro has won, thought I’d chime in. As I wrote to another person above, there were obviously many complex issues at play in this election beyond what I’m exploring in this video: corruption scandals, economic recession, and social conservatism—just to name a few. As you suggest, this video is by no means a summary. What I set out to investigate—mostly for a foreign-language speaking audience unfamiliar with Brazilian politics—is how Brazil’s very serious problem of violent crime is testing people’s patience and bolstering support for the Bolsonaro camp’s draconian proposals. As an American who’s never lived in Brazil, I wouldn't pretend to know the challenges of daily life for all Brazilians, but I understand the importance of basic democratic principles like due process and freedom from state oppression. And taken at his word, Bolsonaro seems prepared to suspend some freedoms in order to bring an end to the gang violence and corruption. It's worth taking a hard look at what that means. Thanks again, for watching our story.
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  4. Hi there. I'm one of the reporters on this piece, and I've been documenting the civil war in Syria for over eight years. I would like to respond to two points you make. The OPCW did not say that Syria destroyed its entire chemical stockpile. It said that it removed the chemical weapons that Syria had declared, and it could not confirm if all chemical weapons had been removed. It also criticized Syria for not declaring some weapons. And after the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun in 2017, analysts found that the same strain of Sarin that Syria produced was used. We examined lots of evidence for this piece and interviewed dozens of sources. All of the evidence, when taken together, does not support Syria and Russia's theory that this attack was staged. The evidence, taken in the round, cross corroborates itself and supports what witnesses to the attack say: that a chlorine canister was dropped on the residential building on that Saturday evening. Please do rewatch the video and look at the evidence taken together. Thanks, Malachy
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