About the. Disastrous and traumatic management of the Covid crisis, an economic crisis affecting for several years a champion of emerging countries (the B of the famous BRICS); collapse and corruption of the political project of a left with an emancipatory vocation; election of the very sulphurous Jair Bolsonaro as head of state. Brazil arouses criticism and worries. This very complete file of “Herodotus” offers a detailed panorama of the situation and the perspectives, on all the plans: aggravation of the inequalities, environmental problems, geopolitics of Brasília, political role of the armed forces, criminality, agro-trade, completion of the transamazonian road, local transformations of Catholicism. The big question is to know if the years to come or not will make lie a maxim, attributed – it is according to – to de Gaulle or to Clemenceau: “Brazil is a country of the future and will remain so for a long time. “
A quote. “Crime in Brazil is the source of all development issues (and especially the lack of development) of the world’s eighth economy” (Nicolas Dolo and Bruno Racouchot).
Brasil
“Hérodote”, n ° 181, 2021, 27 euros.
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