alt Hacker NewsIt is a recurrent Brazilian meme: Rio is known in Brazil as "terra de bandido" (gangster's land).
The majority of their politicians have ties to organized crime. There is a virtual revolving door between police and crime, where people migrate from one to the other.
It is like Chicago in the 20s, Naples and Medelin in the 80s or Moscow and Culiacan (Sinaloa, Mexico) today.
Somehow I doubt that political affiliations with crime syndicates are affecting heavily the dispositions of LLM developers. The industry itself though is one of incest.