As the regime of Nicolas Maduro is a perennial nuisance to its neighbors—including Brazil—there have long been tensions between the two South American powers. There has also been a documented case where the Brazilian FAB shot down an aircraft alleged to be traffickers flying from Venezuela to Brazil. In other words, Brazil’s air force did exactly what the United States Navy has been doing off the coast of Venezuela: destroying the vessels of suspected drug traffickers.
Federal taxes are due on April 15, but a growing number of Americans are refusing to pay as an act of resistance against President Donald Trump’s administration. Attorney Rachel Cohen is one of them. Cohen is an organizer who has been pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed for protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s violent deportations. This year, she decided she needed to withhold payment of her federal tax dollars as another form of protest.
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