Walk through the streets of of Rio or São Paulo, one moment it is as if you are in Paris, turn the corner and it is as if you are in the slums of Calcutta.
I thought the latter half of the 21st century would belong to Brazil, but with that poverty and a massive segment of the population that is uneducated, Brazil is going nowhere.
Paris isn’t what it used to be in the 20th century. Now it looks more and more like Algeria or Morocco.
“Brazil is the economy of the future. And it always will be.” — Charles DeGaulle