THE PUNCH SOUTH AMERICA

Brazil is on fire: Lula & Dilma Rousseff's model isn't such a great deal after all



It is a rare sight. Usually, the Brazilians only threw into the streets during carnival. Now they do it to protest. What happened? It all started by an increase in public transport fares, but that was just the excuse. There was swell. The profound truth is that a good part of society is tired of corruption, impunity, the intricate bureaucracy and mismanagement made by the government.
In Brazil the first world pay taxes but receive services from third. That irritates a lot. The 38% of the wealth they create the Brazilians, the famous GDP goes to the government. In Canada, where the state educates, heals and successfully administered is 37.3. In Spain 35.9. The Swiss have built one of the most prosperous states with only 33.6. But Brazilian perspective perhaps most hurtful is the neighbor Uruguay: Uruguayan public sector consumes just 28.9 of GDP and the country is far more organized and space is noticeably its huge neighbor.
Of course the Brazilian GDP is small or large, depending on how you look. Brazil is the sixth world's workforce of 107 million workers. For its size, is the eighth largest economy in the world, but when you divide the production (U.S. $ 2,374 billion, or trillions if we say) between the entire population (201 million distressed survivors), the country moves into the poor 106th in the world. Even six Latin American countries have better per capita than Brazil, not to mention half a dozen other Caribbean islands also exceed it.
In Brazil the bureaucracy is awkward to cruelty and often corrupt. Public transportation is bad. Justice is agonizingly slow. Prisons are a horror. In general, education and public health are mediocre. Safety is a vague illusion belied by the constant harassment from thugs and the sound of gunfire in the favelas. No one Brazilian university among the top 100 in the world and found only two on the list when we analyze 500. Just published original research. The country trailer up to the creative centers of the world.
Naturally, there are some areas of excellence. To cite some instances: Petrobras, where the government controls 64% stake, is the largest company in Latin America and one of the world's oil efficient. Embraer factory is a good medium-sized aircraft founded by the government and later privatized. Odebrecht is an excellent civil engineering company operating worldwide rumor is that they penetrate politics by oiling the machinery with tons of payola corrupting every government official they can, In Peru it is known that they have made a strong infrastructure investment at a price millions spent on supporting political campaigns of local Lima's major Susana Villaran, and the former president Alan Garcia's new train(a relique of 25 years of ancient technical attributes . The bad and the worst is that the business, in general, is isolated from foreign competition by tariffs and other protectionist measures that are detrimental to local consumers.
Simultaneously, in the last decade have left poverty tens of millions of Brazilians and the government has made considerable efforts to address the problem of malnutrition in the most disadvantaged areas of society, but those achievements, which no one disputes, not compensate the ugly chapter of mismanagement.
President Dilma Rousseff, demagogic, has supported the protesters, as if they were no protests against his rule, but Brazil, for more than a decade, has been administered by the left and the society begins to say that the Party Lula's Workers-the-Dilma consists thieves and scoundrels who manage to enjoy impunity. A perfect hypocrites who, without abandoning the discourse of the claim of the poor, have been as corrupt as the right and center, but far less efficient.
The risk involved in this attitude, if generalized, is that the country will hear a cry that destroys fateful political parties and opens the door to adventure and folly: "that all go away." Let me understand: liberal democracy is a system that works and prevails only when good government and adherence to the law. Otherwise, one day comes the flood.