Brazzil

Is it possible for anyone to understand how Brazil works without having a Phd in psychology and thats before you even start to address the class system.

If Brazi wants to move along these lines and continue to say "Do You Know Who I am" so they can bypass the law and act with impunity then heaven help you lot because look at the mess its made and no one seems to care? Can anyone trust anyone in a system such as this?

Brazil needs a different formula which promotes fairness, integrity and decent morals. This should be implemted from the top downwards.

Visitors to your country will not and should not have to tolerate a chaotic system such as this especially when spending hard earned cash to visit Brazil which would benefit your economy.

Don't pick on the youth if they follow in the footsteps of adults.

Poors have friends too !
It should be :
In Brazil, The Law Is Never For You When You Have MONEY.

I dont even politicians, because by definition, in Brazil, they are not only better paid than politicians in developed nations, AND ON TOP they doubvle their income through CORRUPTION !

Brazilians politicians are ROBING AND RAPING BRAZIL DAY AFTER DAY, for already well over a century.

No one should be then surprised to have so many poors, as the large cake (budget and countr wealth ) was already shared by these gangsters.

George Bush has been a blessing for the American people. He is moral, honest and has values that many Americans still cherish. He is a born-again Christian, which means he is going to heaven. His faith helps him to guide our country through rough times and practice "compassionate conservatism." Thank God George Bush is president.

God, you make even me dislike the US (and I'm from the USA). You seriously need to get out more. The sad part is that you make us all look like fools.

Somebody explain to this idot that Brazil is a lawless country.

And the guy is a professor at Notre Dame. He too seems to have "friends" in the US

Living in the U.S. on the verge of a Godless semi-Nazi style regime lacking in family structure or in Lawless Dirty trashy street graffiti facade Brazil imprisoned by the uneducated and manner-less.

I have never read a better explanation of the problems associated with implementing the rule of law in Brazil than was just provided by Dr. Zimmermann. After living and working in Brazil for four years for a large Brazilian company I had numerous opportunities to see many of the evationary tactics Zimmermann described first hand and I can vouch for their authenticity. And he did it all without emotional outbursts and down in the dirt name calling.
The scope and nature of the problem is for all practical purposes beyond the ability of a typical American to fathom, consequently North American" solutions" tend to focus on symptoms rather on the basic problems that allow this legal dysfunctionality (in my view anyway) to continue.The scope and nature of the problem is for all practical purposes beyond the ability of a typical American to fathom, consequently North American" solutions" tend to focus on symptoms rather on the basic problems that allow this legal dysfunctionality (in my view anyway) to continue.

"ways around the law can be eventually obtained through a range of factors related to conditions of wealth, social status, and ties of family and friendship"

Just like here in the US, eh?

Unfortunately, all those of high social class even if they read this and admit their immoral ways will not change because they would not want to lose this advantage.
Sadly 'jeitinho brasileiro' will always exist.

People in power always do what they have to do to stay there. Look around you wherever you are, whatever country. So those with little power need to get together politically and use whatever power they have for change. If they don't, nothing will change, except maybe get worse.

Having seen many arrogant, rich children pulled over for speeding in Brasil then calling their ´daddy´on the cell phone to get them out of the charge´, whilst the police officers wait with simmering frustration and resignation for the inevitable radio call from their police chief to drop the charge, I have a dislike for the rich and powerful in Brasil that destroys my normal tolerance.

What a hopeless situation where everybody pays for shortcuts (costing US$7 trillion extra extra each year). What a pathetic system that exempts politicians from imprisonment and that has lovely safe prisons for university graduates and normal dangerous prisons for the rest!

Agusto Zimmermann has articulated the situatiion in Brasil perfectly. I find the mentality of rich and powerful Brasilians to do as they wish with impunity as something almost incomprehensible and totally reprehensible. Brasil has a beautiful culture generally, but the massive social inequalities, perpetuated by antiquated Portuguese colonial values such as described by Zimmermann will lock this country into a social and economical backwater for centuries to come.

I am brazilian and I have a law degree. I guess I was too young when I went to college. If it were today I would have studied Psicology.
It would not help me to undestand the Brazilian laws, but at least I could learn how to deal with the corruption and the system better.

George Bush has been a blessing for the American people. He is moral, honest and has values that many Americans still cherish. He is a born-again Christian, which means he is going to heaven. His faith helps him to guide our country through rough times and practice "compassionate conservatism." Thank God George Bush is president.?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? :grin this is a joke right, oh I'm laughing a lot. Brasil has a lot of corruption yes and this article highlights the issues very well. As for this coment about Bush....eh? Where did you pull this out of, what kind of deluded people are voting this guy in again and again.
In Brasil they are well aware of the downfalls in society rich or poor, but it seems more scarey that the USA is filled with people that think Bush is a good person.
Have you listened to him? he is not a smart man, here is a couple of quotes "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." another"I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. " - in a meeting with Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, September 13, 2001. Oh he's funny alright he may not be as corrupt but to be honest he's too stupid to be.Well when he goes to heaven he can say hello to many people he has sent there

That's interesting really, because I would have thought that feeling important by breaking the law was a childish notion. When I see drivers here jumping the lights, driving the wrong way along one-way streets, parking on corners, parking on pedestrian crossings, I thought it was because none of the blighters could drive to save their lives. But now I know...... It's all a cunning and sophisticated form of demonstrating your importance and superiority over others. But as every other Brazilian is doing the same thing, aren't they all, then, equal anyway? Doesn't sound a smart system to me. How about just not breaking the law as abetter idea?

After living in Brazil more than three years, what I Se is that many adult Brazilians are like children. Charming and loving, but frequently thoughtless and selfish. Their lack of respect for others shows in their driving and lack of respect for others. As one example, the huge sound trucks driving around blaring obnoxious advertisements show the merchants have no respect for anyone. They don't even realize that it is costing them business.

In a civilized country, these would be banned as would keeping livestock like roosters in the middle of town. That too, shows that the owners care nothing about their neighbors. Brazil, grow up and act like responsible adults.

What joke. The man is the worst thing to ever happen to America He is the most hated person in the history of humanity. You can measure that as either the total number of people that despise him or as a percentage of the human race that hate him. Either way, he is not a Christian and I hope he rots in hell and soon.

I think the word [babaca translates as a*****e, rather than just fool (a fool would be a bobo or trouxa)

Your Anti-Americanism makes you stupid. This article is about the problems of Brasilian law not George Bush.

YA WHY IGNORE THE ISSUE AND ALWAYS BLAME YOUR PROBLEMS ON THE U.S. OR GEORGE. " I DROPPED MY BOLGNE SANDWICH AND NOW IT DIRTY." IT MUST BE GEORGE'S FAULT!! BRASILIAN LAW IS SCREWED BECAUSE OF BRASILIANS. STOP IGNORING THE ISSUES AND START DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

George Bush has been a blessing for the American people. He is moral, honest and has values that many Americans still cherish. He is a born-again Christian, which means he is going to heaven. His faith helps him to guide our country through rough times and practice "compassionate conservatism." Thank God George Bush is president.
If you all agree with this guy,then who are you to talk about Brazil? Just anoter "doente mental"

USA is a great country,to make money and to go for visit ,so you can say:I went there,and it is no a big deal.Yo may find some very interested people and educated people as you may find people that think Brazil is pure jungle. Some American even asked me : Oh,you from Brazil/ you speak Brazilian then... I would just laugh... Anybody on my country would know that in ESTADOS UNIDOS SE FALA INGLES....So somentimes I would asked my self: and they call this the firs world???? WHY???

Most of Americans just speak English,and they think they are the most educated people in the hole planet...