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Brazilians are hostage to a massively corrupt system that maintains it as an aristocratic extraction colony

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This book concentrates on the riches people brazil has to offer how they became rich what eventually happened to their riches how it all affected the economy and still does politics and social life in brazil cultural traits of the rich and famous and the poor

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This is such an instructive book for those interested in brazil with the olympic games coming up with all the attendant problems and for those who want to glimpse what happens with corruption of the system

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Assigned to cover billionaires of brazil for bloomberg alex cuadros got hooked

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You meet your first billionaires in the era of the military dictatorship when business and the government were tightly tied

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While the elected government of lula da silva with its emphasis on “development” continued awarding awarding contracts to supporters there were other means to wealth

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A good bit of the postdictator period is devoted to eike batista whom caudros sees as emblematic of the era

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Cuadros takes you through eike’s business career distinguished by having a net worth of perhaps 30 billion vanishing to a negative billion in less than a year