10 Worst Problems with Brazil

Brazil is a wonderful country. I write many blogs about Brazil. This means that I live on Eden Garden? No. Brazil has dozens of problems related to inequality, politics, health system, and I will show some of them.

Which place on the world is free of corruption? Monaco, Denmark, Finland, New Zealand There is no place. And Brazil can overcome this. Brazil is the place that overcome the other places, in the good things, and in the bad ones. We start with the people that we have complete shame: politicians. People of suit and tie, saying beautiful, sometimes archaic words, asking for votes like begs. The conscience weighs, and ourselves voters starts movements for take out the politicians of the power, in stupid ways. Welcome to Brazil, where corruption is on each corner, like the car of pamonha (dish like tamales)

But there isn’t Brazilian politician that isn’t involved on crimes or trouble. Be Bolsonaro, be the STF (court), be the random guy who sells pamonha that was elected, or the comedian/broadcaster celebrity, elected. Probably the worst problem of Brazil.

Brazil can be a true Disneyland for criminality. Isn’t like you’ll see the two men in a motorcycle everywhere, but isn’t like that sunset on a calm desert beach at summer (at least isn’t always, because is like these two cases many times). The man selling drugs and making big shootings on Rio’s slums (Rocinha, Cidade de Deus, Complexo do Alemão), or even on the Cracolândia (Crackland) of São Paulo, or basically anywhere, isn’t only a joke. Of course, I won’t discourage no one here, but when you read “BRASIL”, you compulsorily need to take notice that you need to be careful, as the “lands of Tupiniquim”, are on the International Drug Route.

The violence is a big point. Women, black men, indigenous, etc., are between the groups who most get assassinated in Brazil, because of prejudice. The situation is surely not good. These are some stats I found on a Wikipedia page about criminality in Brazil. Remember these data change every year. I could find sources that point Maracanaú (CE), Caucaia (CE), Cabo de Santo Agostinho (PE), Feira de Santana (BA), Queimados (RJ), São Gonçalo do Amarante (RN), etc., as most dangerous city(ies) of Brazil. “Bettering”, the justice is really slow, and there is a lot of impunity. Yeah... Brazil isn’t for the weak of patience.

14,000,000 people. 14,000,000 people are unemployed in Brazil. People who cannot sustain their families, as they doesn’t receive salary. Only an emergency aid of 600,00 reais per month.

One of the aggravating, is the migration, as many people from Northeast migrate other parts of Brazil for better opportunities of work, but they sometimes don’t find them, running to the autonomous/informal work. This give salary? N-O. Also, the invests of the government are really low, and the taxes are used for their personal use (corruption again...). Yeah. Brazil being Brazil. The unemployment is not only sloth of working.

One of the saddest points: poverty/inequality. Isn’t bad and boring when you see a person like “Oh, I’m going to travel to French Polynesia! I. AM. RICH. YOUR POORS HAUSHAUSHSHAUS”, and on the other side, you see a person that cannot travel... even to the bakery, BECAUSE THIS PERSON DOESN’T HAVE EVEN MONEY FOR BUY A BREAD!? Is hard to say precisely, but according to Gini Index, Brazil is the 8th most unequal country. And the unemployment generate the poverty. See how these problems make a chain, and they go increasing?

The poverty in Brazil is really sad, and it’s also common on Northeast of Brazil, specifically at Sertão Nordestino. The big droughts and the hunger are even shocking. About droughts, yeah, we cannot control the weather, and throw a pixie dust for rain, neither do telepathy. But at least the governors should invest on the 7th point I’ll cover, and try to supply the water on the region. But let’s see the stats. 1 on each 4 people in Brazil, are on the poverty. 52 million Brazilians, and alarming the situation: 13 million on extreme poverty. The most cryptical situation is on Maranhão. But about inequality, there is inequality of race (blacks tend to receive less salary from whites), of sex (women also receive less than men in comparison)... dure reality, that I hope change soon.

Who likes income tax, I kindly ask this hypothetical “who” to be admitted to a madhouse. NO ONE LIKES TAXES. Despite we need of pay taxes, they are boring (already saying that as a 12-year-old ;-;). And in Brazil, it’s clear. Ok, I just won’t say a lot. Maybe a Wikipedia list with the taxes we pay in Brazil (doesn’t include other tributes like royalties, contributions, etc. (even if it’s the PIS/PASEP or COFINS of the life. How strange add parentheses on parentheses 😐))

Wow. Inflation. From 1980, to 1990, happened a hyperinflation. In March of 1990, the inflation was of 80%, and after 7 economic plans, it ended on 1994 with Plano Real, that stabilized the actual currency. One of the antecedents, was after the final of Military Dictatorship, when the inflation got into 235% in 85. I also checked (the thing just get worse), that on the end of Sarney Governement (one of the worst too, not only personal opinion), the inflation got into freaking 1972.91%. But look: 24.772%, one year before Real become the national currency! A very recent source (like, two days before I start writing it), says the inflation got into 8.69%, the 28th consecutive elevation. And I complain about prices. Pay respect for those who needed to fuel from car in 1985, to 1994... This is a chart I made for show you the progress (progress? Some points aren’t progress, but regress) of inflation. For 2021, is a projection, but at the end of the year, I can update the chart if I find the exact index.

Something basic, and looks hard for governors. Is it hard to treat the water? Is it hard for treat the sewer? On the North of Brazil, about 90% of the houses, doesn’t have sanitation. And again, Northeast, holds North’s hand. Why there isn’t invest on Northeast and North? People without water for drinking, living with diseases, and smelling the sewer... argh.

Ok, I’ve gotta admit Brazil is bettering on this point, but it’s not sufficient. According to Wikipedia, access to piped water increased from 83% in 1990 to 90% in 2004, while access to basic sanitation increased from 71% to 75%. Many changes will have to be implemented so that inequalities can be reduced and the Millennium Development Goals achieved. In fact, if current investment levels were maintained, Brazil could only reach these targets in 2054. A long path to walk...

Let me clarify you a little thing: everything in Brazil that is public, is trash. As I said 381 times in my blog, the government is more worried to full the pocket of money, than invest for a better BRASIL. The health system sucks here. No doctors, dirty places, impossibility to make surgeries... a research made in 2018, point that about 90% of Brazilians, consider the health system terrible. I’m glad I never needed (at least I can’t remember) to go to a public hospital, but for other dozens of million Brazilians, the reality is exactly opposite.

Patients without patience. Being attended on the corridors of the hospital, because there aren’t vague patient rooms. Delay in attendance. The seconds become minutes, the minutes become days, the days become weeks, the weeks become months, the months become years, and nothing. Lack of doctors. Minimum prepare for do a surgery, high risk. And collapse due to pandemics (no one attend heart attacks, strokes, and everything for them is COVID). Of course, in times of Pandemic, we’ll worry more about COVID, but can’t the hospitals treat all diseases?

The public schools also aren’t safe from this reality of hospitals. I also don’t study on public schools. Man, not saying that particular stuff are free of problems, because they surely aren’t, but in comparison, the public schools are terrible. The teachers generally, doesn’t have a good graduation, and there isn’t preoccupation with the health of teacher, and student.

Spraypanting everywhere, and the bathrooms are horrible. The school material that govern offers, is of bad quality. And if you see a public school, is a disorder. I cannot say my school, as particular, is completely organized. Disorder again (but a disorder that I even like and play together). But study in a public school, is only because there is no option. On ENEM (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio - National High School Exam), the notes of Redation on public schools, go down. If you focus well on the studies, you can have good opportunities. But is really hard.

FINALLY THE LAST POINT. I’m just angry already of writing the problems of Brazil. But anyway, let’s talk about deforestation. The first thing you can think, is of the Amazon: the lungs of the world. It looks these lungs are with asthma because of how we deforest this huge, wild, and gorgeous forest. The devastation is next to (or already is) in a irreversible point. Some searches point Amazon can be completely gone on two centuries, on 2050, or even the ones who believe that in one decade, the lungs of the world can pass away. One of the things that make us Brazilians proud of, is losing...

Not only Amazon is dying. The Atlantic Rainforest too, and way more dramatically. You maybe never heard about it, but it’s a biome of Brazil, that used to cover the whole coast of the country, and some parts along the countryside. Now, only 10% of the vegetal cover is still up. The reasons can vary from logging, to creation of cities. The wood from the trees is important for our consume, but as the trees make us breathe, let them breathe too, please.

I also have my problems with Brazil, that can be personal (personal like, mine, and of other some million people). I was going to write them (like, the thousand bad words of funk carioca, the journalistic controversial and partiality of Globo TV, the expensive prices of gasoline, or the spam annoying propaganda of free-to-air TV, mainly ads of 123Milhas) (wow, I just said them ;-;). But enough, this is giving me headache. Brazil is freaking amazing and lovely, but its problems are also huge, and I wanted to show that I’m not only sycophant of Brazil always. So... that’s it. If you scrolled down here just to write a comment like “Cool formatting, I love your blogs”, thank you, but scroll up, and read everything. It’s not only my personal problems, but of more than 210 million people who live in BRASIL.