Generalized complaints and no one idea what to do about it but "elect me!" As one of the privileged elite, he really has no idea how things really are in his own country. That's why there should be a one-term limit for all elected and appointed officials. If he had to get out of sucking at the public trough and earn a living in the real world, maybe he could learn that things are improving all the time. But certainly not because of political hacks that can only complain and never do anything.

THIS SORROWFUL, HOW CAN ANYONE LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHICH IS SO HEARTLESS.

EVERYONE SEEMS TO KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. WHY IT IS LIKE THIS. BUT NO ONE HAS THE POLITICAL WILL TO TRY TO CHANGE THIS SOUL-DESTROYING CULTURE OF APATHY. THIS IS MAKING BRAZILIANS SELFISH AND MEAN.

BRAZIL CAN CHANGE IF IT WANTS TO BUT BRAZIL HAS TO DECIDE IF IT REALLY WANTS CHANGE OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE TALKING TILL THE NEXT CENTURY.

DON'T COMPLAIN IF YOU WANT THINGS TO REMAIN BECAUSE THE WORLD IS CHANGING, RAPIDLY

DESPITE OF BEING "HEARTLESS," PEOPLE HERE STILL MANAGE TO BE GENERALLY HAPPIER AND FRIENDLIER THAN YOUR SOUR, OVERWEIGHT, DOUR AND PISS-SMELLING FACE OF A SOCIETY...

Jesus, do you have to start with this s**t already. I agree many people are happier in brazil, but insulting someone elses culture in such a juvanile manner accomplishes nothing.

who is really surprised ?

This has goping on for 2 centuries....only....!!

And absolutely no real commitment and accountability for any change from the Brazilian political decision makers, from left to right, including Buarque who is an ex senator and an ex Minister of Education and who is nonetheless a presidential candidate for the next elections.He is so busy for his next campaign that he still has plenty of time to write regularly articles with no news, but just describing the daily life of his country !

In fact this article just criticizes himself and all his fellows politicians, by having done almost nothing or very little at best....to fight against poverty while HE/they were in power !

Facts are facts but reality is sad !

....that in Brazil there is no sense of unity !
this expoains your wealth inequality in which you are a world champion.

But just read and listen to Lula and his junkies.....they are asking for international financing, favored treatments etc etc...!!!

But for who ? knowing what is really happening as written in the article.

Certainly not for the majority of the brazilian poors in the last 200 years.

That is the only thing that can be ......guaranteed...and even written in the brazilian constitution. This will be the only law that will be respected and apllied religiously !

...slavery has not been eradicated...in Brazil !

It has been written in the Brazilian constitution. Just written but not applied !

You still have many slaves, even put in slavery by politicians (just read last week news).

And curious has always.....Brazil can estimate the number of slaves in the country....but not free them ! If they are able to estimate...they know by definition where they are !

And are the estimates correct.....because brazilian estimates to hide reality is well known by the whole world !

A CANDIDATE FOR THE 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, THE BRAZILIAN SOCIETY WILL HEAR EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID HIMSELF IN THE ARTICLE :
In 2006 BRAZILIAN SOCIETY will have another presidential election and will probably watch the same old debate: you will hear promises and proposals about how to grow, create more jobs, construct more highways, factories, hydroelectric projects. But quite possibly we will not have a serious debate about how to integrate Brazilian society....FROM BUARQUE HIMSELF !!!!!!!

TO THIS PERSON WHO HAS MADE THE INSULTS, I AM NOT SURPRISED BY YOUR REMARKS..... THIS IS TYPICAL!!!!

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT SLAVERY, CHILD LABOUR AND EVERY KIND OF EXPLOITATION IS CURRENT IN BRAZIL, BUT MOST PEOPLE TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS AND THINK, YEA, IT'S NOT RIGHT, BUK IT'S OK... I DONT...

ANYONE WHO WANTS TO CONTROL SOMEONE ELSE OR BELIEVES THEY OWN ANOTHER, IS NOT IN CONTROL OF THIER OWN LIVES.....

EACH HUMAN BEING IS ENTITLED TO HIS/HER OWN FREE WILL, AND ALSO FREEDOM TO CHOOSE FOR THEMSELF, GET IT!!!!

WE ARE IN 2006..... AREN'T WE?????

Mr. Buarque is part of the very much corrupt Lula's entourage. What did HE do as Education Minister in order to start correcting the situation?

The worst part is that you can almost guarantee that mr baurque won't read or take into account any critisism on this site. He just keeps on hearing his own voice....

Why doesnt Cristovam Buarque start the ball rolling sell his big house(s) put his money in a fund for social 'intergration' and move into a lower middle class barrio, take 1000-2000rls salary a month.

talk is so so cheap

If you understand "nation" to mean an imagined community with shared language, culture, and history, Brazil more then quaifies. Severe Inequality and povery have always, sadly, been party of Brazilian reality, but that does not negate its status as a nation. Brazilians are divided, brazilians are rich, brazilians are poor, black, white, and every color inbetween-but they are still all brazilians.
Jared

Mr. Buarque, do you mean anything you have written?

Talk is cheap especially on serious issues like this and is insulting!!!

I am getting more and more perplexed by the Brazilian mentality..Confusing!!!

Why not keep everything just as it is and talk about nothing? That should keep lawmakers...journalists and anyone who thinks this way really happy, you can have a laugh about your own!!!!

I have lost faith in Brazil. None of you deserve the post you occupy!!!

The last poster seems to think that it is insulting to about serious issues, though it is hard to tell, as he or she writes in the style of a confused rant. Their mentality (confussing!) is of an opressive cynic- shut up everyone! I hate myself and my country of birth. (I'm guessing on the country of birth bit)

You are so wrong!!!

Continue as you are, I don't want to go round in circles!! Your all jokers.

Anyone would be a cynic about Brazil!! Get your priorities correct then these debates would be more meaningful.

"EVERYONE SEEMS TO KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. WHY IT IS LIKE THIS. BUT NO ONE HAS THE POLITICAL WILL TO TRY TO CHANGE THIS SOUL-DESTROYING CULTURE OF APATHY. THIS IS MAKING BRAZILIANS SELFISH AND MEAN. "

THANK YOU!!!!

Brazil prepares to power up uranium-enrichment plant
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — While the world scrutinizes Iran's nuclear plans, Latin America's biggest country is weeks away from firing up the region's first major uranium-enrichment plant.

That move will make Brazil the ninth country to produce large amounts of enriched uranium, which can be used to generate nuclear energy and, when highly enriched, to make nuclear weapons.

Brazilians, who have long nurtured hopes of becoming a superpower, are reacting with pride to the new facility in Resende, about 70 miles from Rio de Janeiro.

Other countries enriching uranium on an industrial scale are the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, China and Japan.

The plant initially will produce 60 percent of the nuclear fuel used by the country's two nuclear reactors. A third reactor is being planned. The government hopes to increase production eventually to meet all of the reactors' needs and have enough to export, Brazilian officials said.

"We want to build new power plants and grow our enrichment program to be self-sufficient," said Odair Dias Goncalves, president of Brazil's National Nuclear Energy Commission.

The Resende plant's inauguration had been set for Jan. 20 but was delayed because construction wasn't completed, Dias Goncalves said. The plant may begin uranium enrichment without the hoopla later this month, officials said.

Unlike Iran, Brazil is considered a good global citizen that isn't seeking nuclear weapons, although its military ran a secret program to develop a nuclear weapon as recently as the early 1990s.

But some U.S. observers fear Brazil's program will encourage more countries to make nuclear fuel, raising the danger of nuclear-weapons proliferation.

Brazil's nuclear-fuel needs, more than 120 tons of enriched uranium a year, don't warrant the country launching an industrial facility like Resende, said Lawrence Scheinman, a former U.S. arms-control official.

"There really isn't much justification for new enrichment facilities unless countries have a very substantial number of reactors to be serviced and don't want to depend on outside suppliers," he said.

Like Iran, Brazil has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the agreement to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. All of Brazil's 20 facilities using nuclear material are under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards.

Brazilian officials worked closely with the IAEA throughout Resende's planning and construction, Dias Goncalves said.

Iranian officials, on the other hand, hid their uranium-enrichment work for 18 years and obtained much of their technology from a Pakistani-led smuggling ring.

The road to Resende hit a few bumps in 2004, when Brazil refused to let inspectors view centrifuges used in enrichment, saying they had to protect Brazilian-designed innovations.

After months of negotiations, the two sides agreed to let IAEA inspectors examine material coming in and out of the centrifuges but not the equipment, said Edson Kuramoto, president of the nongovernmental Brazilian Nuclear Energy Association

"We are a country, not a nation."

I agree this sentence about sums it up! It is not just a lack in government, but a lack in the society. Complacency breeds complacency.

sure, everyone knows that Brazil needs to grow economicly, create jobs, re-invest in eduation, address the crisis in the public health system, push the traffickers out of high density urban zones...

Those are goals eveyone can agress on, but how do you get there? Do you cut taxes, or increase social spending? If you cut, where, if you spend, where?

If you cut interest rates, how do you combat inflation?

Should the fed gov take over state schools that are falling apart, or should the city governments run them?

What do you do about the terrible conditions in the prison systems, especially the youth centers? Do you build new jails, if so, with what money?

I agree that the Lula administration has done a poor job of making its priorities known. With the pressure of the debt lessened, the government will have more freedom to address some of these questions, that is it would, if politicans could do more then call each other imorale and corrupt.

The debate would be more interessting if writers didb't decend into "I hate the Brazilian mentality" cynicism, as if there were one Brazilian mentality.

Here's the URL for the Portuguese-language transcript of the Fantstico program mentioned in this article.

http://fantastico.globo.com/Jornalismo/Fantastico/0,,AA1125746-4005,00.html

What a joke.

Go get a job and stop having 10 kids and ask of the state to solve the problems of your life.

When I was in Brazil in 1992 the blacks were invisible in the business
section of Rio and SP. When I went out to eat everyone knew that I was not Brazilian. However, when I wentt to Brazil last year, I found that all of this had change. The Blacks in Brazil are no longer shame to be called black. They are demanding their share of the pie like all other Brazilians.

I've just read the article and commentaries as well. I would like to mention that unfortunately in Brazil, people just care about themselves. Even Lula, who wanted to help poor people, was criticizing the right wing and its procedures, as soon as he reached the power changed completely his views and became right wing and corrupted. I am from the south of Brazil. I just went once to the north. unfortunately in the north the culture is totally different. I think that it will never change.

"We are a country, not a nation." - sums up all I have discovered about Brasil. The mutual dislike that Paulistas and Nordestinas have for each other is ugly and counter-productive. It´s the typical ´Them and Us´ thing where differences in privilege and wealth are contrasted. The rich of the south have no concern for the poor of the north or anywhere for that matter. The rich refer to the poor black Nordestinas as primitive and dangerous - (but essential to cheap labor!)

In Australia when we have massive bushfires and some areas run low on manpower and equipment both are imported from other parts of Australia. National pride is important to all Australians. The wealthy states here contribute to maintaining equal infastructure to the poorer states through federal taxation and legislation. We have interstate rivalry in sport and even sometimes make traditional lighthearted jokes of people from other states. But Australia has a sense of national pride - something that I have never seen in Brasil. My country is not perfect by any means - so don´t start replying with the persecution of the Aborigines and illegal migrants! (National pride has forced the Federal Government to make many costly concessions to both these groups). I am talking about the LACK of national pride in Brasil and not other issues here.

Brasil certainly has national pride when it wins in football. But football is nothing in the grand scheme of things, and when the cheering dies down it´s back to reality.

Alagoas is a classic example of a poverty-ridden state and it is so unfair to see a nation such as Brasil allowing such contrasts in infastructure and educational opportunities. This lack of national pride in Brasil extends to political will exemplified in the terrible destruction of the environment all over Brasil - not just in the Amazon.It makes locals think only of their local envirnment. Who cares about the rest? As long as we are okay. This attitude permeates Brasilian society big time! And it doesn´t stop there.

The self-interest is so extensive that anyone or anything outside the Brailian´s local sphere (bairro) is of no consequence. So pullute the local creek if it is help profit levels and is convenient - as long as it washes downstream and away. Too bad if it poisons the next bairro! Let the other bastards fend for themselves. Life is tough enough without us helping them! Such sad, desructive and selfish attitudes.

We all await political movements with new values that challenge the ancient exploitive, selfish motives of the Portuguese colonialists. We wait for people with great ideas for social change, people who have travelled the world and gathered the best ideas from all countries to implement them with passion, pride and courage. Brasilians generally have a lovely, polite manner. But the leaders of the past have held them in archaic acceptance of social situations that should NEVER be accepted.

Capitalism and healthy economic growth balanced with equality, compassion and national pride- are difficult things to achieve. But hopefully someone will arrive on the scene who can lead this incredible nation into a new era.

BTW: I find it childish and totally counter-productive for people in this forum to criticise a writer because of their nationalty, education or party membership. This is a forum for ideas and comments - not for pure bitching for the sake of it. Cristovam Buarque´s comments are under scrutiny here - not his PTD affiliation. Some of you guys get this so wrong because you cannot see beyond a political party name or where someone lives. This is narrowmindedness in the extreme and infantile! He is just one man in a massive country. His ideas alone are nothing. But they do display a recognition that something in Brasil needs fixing and his comments are at least being voiced and are educating the minds of some Brasilians. All great movements in history began in the mind of someone. So give the guy a chance. Maybe some hitherto unknown person out there reading his comments is the right person to implement them.

Great article, I agree with the above... summed up the situation in Brazil articulately and have given Brazilians a great insight into thier problems detailing what needs to be addressed or fixed. I really enjoyed reading this article.

I hope Brazilians will take note and make the necessary changes so they can build a better nation whilst instilling a sense of national pride from north to south - east to west!!!

As far as implementing changes in Brazilian's mind-set is concerned, I believe the best way of doing this is by investing in all stages of education (basic, primary, sec. and, more emergently, superior education - teacher training courses). As a university teacher, I have found myself in a priviledged position to bring in texts and discussions to the classroom and have future teachers reflect all the issues discussed above. Many of these teachers-to-be have engaged in social projects in schools both public and private with a view to educating both students and parents (Escola da Famlia Project). Results of such projects may not be as visible as 'new roads, buildings and stadiums' or happen overnight. However, what we can see fairly quickly is a clear change of attitude in the people involved in such projects. I notice we do have the potential to BE a nation, but first we need to improve education and the bond between schools and families.

I agree, this article is informative and all the points you've raised are valid.

will anyone listen...thats the question?

And more talk. Brazil's problem is easy - its a racist country just like the US that will never change. The whites in power will NEVER give up that power and share that wealth. They want to keep the 500 year old status quo. They want to keep the senzala and case grande system going that has always worked in favor of the whites.

In this 21st century world with China rapidly becoming the world's next superpower backwards thinking "whites only" countries will eventually fall like that backwards assed dinosaurs that they are. White people DO not want change. That is why Brazil just like America will always remain an unjust and inequitable sh-thole.

I know where you are coming from but believe me things are changing all around the world so it makse no sense for Brazil to remain stagnant.

You are justified in the way you feel about the colonial history of Brazil, but if its any consolation to you, read these articles on BBC.CO.UK which is a world reputable medi source and type these headings in the search link.

Colonial abuses haunt France.

Chirac names Slavery memorial day.

10 things about British Slavery.

These countries had an awful colonial past but are trying to address these issues morally and with respect.

Evedently your hatred towards the white man you feel as a black american (obvious by your syntax and word choice) has blinded you to the fact that real and measurable improvements have been made in the US. I am not denying racism exists in both countries. But the US has made improvements and hopefully Brazil will also. Also it is not about sharing the wealth that exists it is about giving people education and opportunities through fair and just treatment under the law to create thier own wealth. In addition, do you really think Chinese are going to like you any better than "backwards ass" white people.

The strongmens that once ruled brazil told them that the only things important in life were
sex, soccer and samba. The leaders built soccers stadiums all over the country but no schools or hospitals. The brazilians are now saying that they want schools, food
and hospitals. Brazilians are speaking out about their government so this is progress.

Freedom of speech is a powerful tool.

The Brazilian mentality of sex, soccer and samba has put Brazil where it is today. I agree that quality education on all levels, decent healthcare and real opportunities will move Brazil forward... but Brazilians have to realise this for themselves.

I am afraid it appears Brazilians have been manipulated for centuries by people who should have known better.

Here is my humble observation after one month trip in Brazil. I found the state of this country Hopeful overall. Of course Brazilian society breads inequality every where go. I saw BMW and Mercedes on Atlantic avenue, and misery and human suffering in Copacabana avenue. Brazilian contradictions in display. Well coming from a third world country I wasn't that surprise. But Brazil has surely the economical potential to fulfill the need of its citizens than my impoverished country Djibouti.
The thing that intrigued me was the level of education of the common Brazilian. I don't want to be pretentious, but I found the Brazilian having some educational deficit.
I was in a third world country such a Cuba, one can see right way the educational level of the population. Maybe Castro did a great job in this domain?
Well someone compare China and Brazil. I can tell you one thing, the Chinese leadership is a class on this own. A first class leadership focuses like a laser beam to modernize their country. I don't see a lot of leadership of that sort in any country in the world. See the average 10 % of economy growth during the last 26 years speaks volume.
Brazil can have a great future if it tackles corruption, bureaucracy inertia, primary education, and lack of coherent development plan. But Brazil has others unquantifiable assets such the energy of its people, its vast resources, its wonderful weather, the quality of its engineers , et je ne sais quoi d'autres... Something big can be build in these assets. I sincerely hope that the Brazilian people will prove wrong the prophecy of general De Gaulle, the future is Brazil, always be ...
A friend to the Brazilian people , Mahmoud Chawki

Thank you for the above well thought out balanced comment. It is sometimes a rarity of this site...

I guess pessimism is a common way of thinking when it comes to huge political and socio-economical issues like these, and I sometimes caught myself of being cynical when trying to form my opinion about this stuff. Still, I think it's hugely important to at least keep believing that there exist ways of solving the deeprooted problems Brasil has. If people start thinking there's now way of resolving the problem, any resolution is lost.
I think education is THE most important vehicle for progression in Brasil. It's in a relitive poor condition, concerning the quality of your education in Brasil still depends enormously on the size of your wallet.
There's so much stuff that needs to bechanged and I think the first step is trying to make the brasilian masses who are for a big part still brainwashed concious of what is actually going on in their own country and giving them a voice and the power to change their situation.
mare

BLAH-BLAH-BLAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"We are a country, not a nation"

Every country is probably like this. African Americans in the US don't consider themselves Americans in general. The only group who is just plain American are white Americans (not European American). I'm not placing blame on them for that, my point is all countries have divisions within. I'm Liberian and yes it's a homeland for freed slaves but inside there were two Liberias: Settlers and Natives. People just have a natural tendency to divide. If not this it would be ethnic conflict like in parts of Africa and East Europe or Religious like in parts of the Middle East. But yes I'm definitely glad people are at least taking these sorts of issues into consideration, just stay as optimistic as you seem to be about it, because that's why the world loves you.

As someone who took their first trip to Brazil, I must say that it was an educational experience. As someone outside looking in, I saw a lot of hope. I must say I was surprised at the Infrastructure. Some parts of it looked quite first world to me as apposed to being thirld world or "developing nation" as Western Media would classify Brazil. I speak of the nbr of sky scrapers seen in Sao Paulo, the subway systems in Rio and Sao Paulo, massive freeways, and ahead of the US in the use of clean burning fuels in cars etc. Our driver showed us the ability to move between Natural Gas and Petroleum at the flick of a switch in his car.

The Thirld World/Developing World status probably comes from the things mentioned on this Site - The gross inequality and ethnic divide. This has its roots in Slavery, which apparently still exists in some parts of Brazil as seen on this web site. History shows however, that it is not until the abused/enslaved/segregated omitted from business/economy REACT, that change will occur.

It applies domestically: until that abusive father/husband/mother gets a GOOD, PLANNED CUTTAIL RESPONSE from the abused son/wife etc, they WILL continue their BULLs**t!!! That is HUMAN behaviour, it's not WHITE, BLACK or BROWN!!!!

In America, it was not until Rosa Parks said to hell with this Bulls**t!!! I'M NOT SITTING AT THE BACK OF THE BUS!!! that things began changing in America for Afro-Americans. White People didn't give us ANYTHING!!! Whatever was achieved was taken, or rights demanded, laws put to the test, or laws passed, or you can sit in the Bus by yourself Racist White Cracker, and pay for it yourself and DO ALL THE WORK YOURSELF as well to support your elite way of living. And that's in America where Afro-Americans are a MINORITY!!!!

Those in the mainstream with brain-power saw that it was better for their way of life as well as the economy to be inclusive of Afro-Americans and support Martin-luther King and what he preached because on the other side of that was what men like Malcolm X preached.

The same decisions will have to be made in Brazil regarding your stark inequality or your day of reckoning will come as well. Maybe that's the reason for why the functional illiteracy level is so high: 70% are the figures I see floating around. The elite are probably afraid that if the masses become wise their elite way of living may be threatened.

The sad truth however, is that imbalance never persists indefinitely - by it's very definition. SOMEWHERE, AT SOME POINT IN TIME, SOMETHING WILL CAUSE AN ERUPTION!!! If this stark an imbalance persists with roots traced to slavery. This WILL occur if NOT addressed, the only question is WHEN.

If the solution is to keep the masses dumb and illiterate, the only thing being changed in the equation is the WHEN variable.

To the oppressed/abused/shut out. It is not until you ACT!!!!! That things will change for you. If you're QUALIFIED, and do your job, but the elite Whites deny you jobs at their Copacabana establishments, then Boycott their stores, put up signs, embarass the pieces of s**t!!! let foreigners like myself and the host of others who spend our green backs at their stores know this. There are MANY in this world who have survived oppression and would support your cause. I personally know at least half a dozen who spend their money down there and I know that they know people as well. You would be surprised to see how quick the word would spread and bring their businesses to a screeching halt!!

But like Rosa Parks someone there has to ACT!!! TRUTHFULLY!! AND WITHIN THE LAW!!! the rest will be history - RIGHT ALWAYS PREVAILS OVER WRONG!!!! the only variable is TIME!!!!

WHAT A BRILLIANT WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE AND SPOT ON..

EVERYTHING YOU HAVE WRITTEN HERE IS SO TRUE.

IF IT WASN'T FOR THE LIKES OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ROSA PARKS, WHAT WOULD HAVE BECOME OF THE BLACKS IN AMERICA?

I TOTALLY AGREE THAT BLACK BRAZILIANS SHOULD TAKE A LEAF OUT OF THIS PASSAGE IN HISTORY ..SO THEY CAN EARN THE RESPECT THAT IS LONG OVERDUE..

But it takes money to make money, so how are most of them who subsisting going to get beyond the subsistence level so that they can threaten with dollars? How will figure out a way to be needed more than they need? Not show up to Carnaval, stop doing Salvador's?

To the Chinese you are still just n****rs, and will be long after the white man accepts you, which 99% of them will after a bath, some deodorant, an education and a job.

You are too retarded to absord the fact that black Americans made more advances in the 40 years before the Rosa Park's episode than in the 40 years since. At one time, before your welfare addiction, most black children lived in a home with a working father. Now that only applies to some 15% or less - you f**king idiots didn't get your share of the pie, you pissed in it and shat upon it, threw half of it back in the white man's face while retaining the s**ttier part for your own consumption. You lazed and fornicated away your share, and are not entitled to s**t.

Now in the US, black children from families with a working father are just as likely to do well as a white kid, so don't blame being black for being a n****r.

When the above is true in Brasil, we can claim that we are as racially advanced as the USA. Till then, let's admit that we're just more comfortable with each other here in Brasil.

BRASIL IS STILL IN THE DARD STONE AGES AND THERE IS NO HOPE FOR ANYTHING BETTER BECAUSE BRASILIANS ARE VERY RACIST PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE WHITE LOOKING ONES AND THEY ARE NOT WHITE, THEY ARE LATINO IN AMERICAS EYE. THE DUMBEST PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. I BEEN IN BRASIL FOR 9 YEARS AS A BLACK AMERICAN, AND IT JUST GALLS ME HOW THE BLACK BRASILIANS WHO ARE POOR DON'T TRY AND ESTABLISH A LEADER LIKE MALCOLM X, BUT THEY KNOW HOW TO ROB TOURISTS JUST LIKE THE SO CALLED THINK THEY ARE WHITE BRASILIANS WHO RULE EVERYTHING IN THIS f**kED UP COUNTRY. BRASIL NEEDS TO BE BLOWN UP ATOMICALLY AND REBUILT FROM THE GROUND UP AND ALSO KILL ALL THE UNCLE TOM BLACK BRASILIANS AND START A VIOLENT ARMED REVOLUTION.

i agree with last poster brazilians are really racvists espceically toward blacks and indians the whites run everything there and spoil everything atthe same time they are the BIGGEST BANDIDOS on this planet i dislike brazilians with a passion i hate the f**kes they smell and talk s**t