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"He was starting to get pissed off with the world's stupid obsession with Brazil. What was so great about Brazil? As far as he knew, Brazil was shitheap full of morons obsessed with football and Formula One. It was the ne plus ultra of violence, corruption and misery. If ever a country were loathsome that country, specifically, was Brazil.
"'Sophie,' announced Bruno, 'I could go on holiday to Brazil tomorrow. I'd look around a favela. The windows of the minibus would be bulletproof. In the morning, I'd go sightseeing. Check out eight-year-old murderers who dream of growing up to be gangsters; thirteen-year-old prostitutes dying of AIDS. I'd spend the afternoon at the beach surrounded by filthy rich drug barons and pimps. I'm sure that in such a passionate, not to mention liberal, society, I could shake off the malaise of Western civilisation. You're right, Sophie: I'll go straight to a travel agent as soon as I get home.'"
Atomised - Michel Houellebecq

"The alarming breakdown of society will lead to new forms of apartheid and emergency states. He (Slavoj Zizek) highlights the growing militarisation of Italy, where the government has sent the army into Naples to deal with the mafia. He claims that São Paulo in Brazil is mutating into a real-life version of the film Blade Runner (1982). The city now has 70 heliports with the rich travelling on another level to the poor."
The modest Marxist, John Thornhill, Financial Times, 7 Mart 2009

"Operating by cell phone, a highly organized prison gang launched an attack that shut down Brazil’s largest city last May, with the authorities powerless to stop it. For many in São Paulo, this vast, amorphous criminal network is the only government they have."
City of Fear, William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair, Nisan 2007