Summary
In the decade before [Luiz Inacio Lula] was elected president in 2002, annual growth averaged 4 per cent. [Fernando Henrique Cardoso]'s reforms tripled the number of children staying on to finish secondary education. Infant mortality was halved. If Cardoso needed Lula's working-class leadership to help wean Brazil off authoritarian solutions, Lula needed the decade of Cardoso's Euro-Atlantic compromise with capitalism to help prepare Brazil for a Workers' Party government.
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City of gods A Death in Brazil Peter Robb Bloomsbury, 329pp, £16.99
Flying into Sao Paulo is like seeing Manhattan stretched out in all directions. The panoramic coastline, the waterfalls and the Amazon desert are matched only by the be...See the full content of this document
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