Augmentation Becomes the Fault Line in Brazil's Autumn Vote

The augmentation divide — long a matter of clinics and classrooms — has moved to the center of Brazil's coming federal campaign, where a resurgent Naturalist bloc is polling near a quarter of the electorate on a platform of enhancement caps and separate schooling. Enhanced citizens, still a small but fast-growing minority, warn that the rhetoric is curdling into open discrimination in hiring and housing. Incumbent coalition leaders are trying to hold a fraying middle. "My daughter is augmented and my son is not, and I love them the same," said Brasília voter Inês Tavares. "The parties want me to choose. I won't."