Brazzil

The Brasilian industrial machine is finally running strong and free market polices implemented by the Cardosa administrition have created a force that even the usual Brasilian comedy of leadership can not buffer and slow done. This bodes well for Brasil and it's future? Just imagine what could happen for the Brasilisns in need if the populace was not side tracked by the age old tradition of corruption in high (and low...and all) places. The author above is absolutley correct, but fails to mention that nothing has changed. The continued growth of the Brasilian economy continues to bless Brasil's rich with even more wealth while the down trodden continued to be beat up and betrayed by the very politicians they put in power who promised to look out for their interest . It's pathetic but true...Brasil will never really change.

"---Brasil will never really change."

I do not agree with the above statement although there is no way to measure the out coming of the actual political scandal.

I believe that Brazil will eventually change and the Brazilians will eventually become politically smart.

I have faith that this generation of political morons will be gone some day.

Let’s empower the judiciary system in Brazil by allowing the judges to punish political criminals with more severe laws, jail time and permanent banishment from the political life.

Having some experience with Brasil and Brasilians' the above poster demonstrates the typical Brasilian attitude that makes it bareable to go on each and everday..."I believe that Brazil will eventually change" How? The problems are enormous and historical, there are no easy answers. Only when Brasilians get the balls to deal with their problems by what ever means necessary, including violent civil unrest, will it change. It is a morally bankrupt country with the inability to develop leaders that can make a difference. They are doomed to always be known as the country with great potential that will never be realized. Keep dreaming my friend, when I lived in Brazil I meet many like you who I now count as friends and I pray that there dreams and prayers will one day be answered and I will be wrong.

You asked how Brazil will change and showed a great deal of pessimism. I understand that Brazil is not your country so you feel no commitment to dream about any change for better. I also understand that you had some experience with our country and from that you assumed that you know us deeply.

We have no unattainable problem (no matter how big you think it is) that we cannot resolve. You negativity is typical of most Brazilians. So, we do have a problem today let’s surrender to hopelessness.

If you remove hope what else do we have? Hope is what we have left and we are going to keep going. Does it disturb you?

Further in your comments you provide a solution for how Brazil can change. You say that there is a way but even so you are dooming us.

In the end you say you hope to be wrong, that is right, your prayer will be answered: you are going to be wrong.

Your hope does not disturb me, but it fasinates me. Brasil is an amazing country of contrasts and oxymorons, it is easy to fall in love with it. Even with all it's problems and I disagree, until you have the courage to take back entire cities from drug lords and criminals, and hold judges, police and soldiers accountable, it will never change...but there is something that creates an unrealistic hope, even for a gringo who lived there 2 years. I don't know which economic class you reside in, but the elite will continue to demand cheap labor, a $300R a month live in slave and a class that knows it's place and the poor will continue to provide it. With the help of an inept and morally corrupt governement that reaches all levels, even the policeman on the corner of Joanna Angelica & Barroe Torre in Ipanema who has his hand out for $5R to park your car. But you must not get me wrong my friend, even with all your problems I often wonder if Brasilians do not enjoy a better quality of life than the average person in Gringoland. I mean, no matter what happens, or what your day is like, you can always grab a beach chair and head for the beach, especially that 5 square miles in Ipanema which I consider the best place on the face of the earth.

We are growing and I we are learning little by little. Hope is associated to faith, a very powerful thing.

We are going to get there.

I met a leader from an American church, when his church was announcing their temple in Sao Paulo, who once was visiting Brazil many years ago and had prophesized that one day Brazil will be a great nation. I heard him saying that few meters from me and I believe that he was right. I know that it sounds very unscientific but he promoted hope to everyone there and his word was well received by the local community.

They had faith in the people by building their temple and now they have many of their temples in Brazil.

Many corporations also have faith in Brazil and invest billions of dollars in my country. International banks also continue pouring money in Brazil. There many countries in the world trading with Brazil and their number keep growing. Etc, etc