Brazzil

Analysts are on the lookout for events or circumstances that might blemish the favorable image that Brazil currently enjoys in foreign credit markets. The performance of the economy in 2004 was better than most had anticipated a year ago.  Record exports and the consequent trade surplus enabled the country to reduce its current account deficit. 

The Globo’s series of articles about dangerous connections and ever growing evident relations between samba schools and organized crime are extremely important. The subject is taboo, the type everyone knows about but no one has the courage to investigate.