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Don't go into the communities/favelas (unless you really want to, then find a guide) and you'll be fine. New Years in Rio is high profile and well-known enough that any incidents with foreigners/estrangeiros would be a huge scandal so it's relatively safe at that time.
This sounds equivalent to me to "Don't go into the neighborhoods of New York City, just Times Square and businesses." Do you really visit the place, then?
I read a lot of economics blogs. A lot of them seem to have the joke, "Brazil is the country of the future, and it always will be!" The meaning is that Brazil should be a more successful country. Great location, favorable demographics, lots of natural resources, peaceful neighbors, large population, mostly stable government. But it just never quite becomes successful. But in could, in the future! But that's what peop…
I read a lot of economics blogs. A lot of them seem to have the joke, "Brazil is the country of the future, and it always will be!" The meaning is that Brazil should be a more successful country. Great location, favorable demographics, lots of natural resources, peaceful neighbors, large population, mostly stable government. But it just never quite becomes successful. But in could, in the future! But that's what peop…
What are some of the best economics blogs? Interested in learning more.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Brazil+is+the+country+of+the+futur...
Also, one one observation is if there's a Reddit video clip of some crazy random shooting or assassination or off-duty policeman shooting, it seems to almost always be coming from Brazil, which is pretty scary.
Deforestation of the Amazon, kapoeira and carnavals is everything I know about Brasil without googling.
I've been to Brazil close to a dozen times, both for business and for adventure travel (kitesurfing and paragliding). I love the country and the people and have a lot of friends there. I find most Americans overestimate how 'dangerous' Brazil seems to be, based on hearsay. In Brazil I rarely meet other Americans, but do meet lots of adventurous Europeans and others who also love this huge, beautiful, diverse—and of c…
Similar experience traveling to Mexico, felt safer walking around Merida & Progresso (on the Yucatan) at night than I feel walking around lots of US cities during the day.
I read a lot of economics blogs. A lot of them seem to have the joke, "Brazil is the country of the future, and it always will be!" The meaning is that Brazil should be a more successful country. Great location, favorable demographics, lots of natural resources, peaceful neighbors, large population, mostly stable government. But it just never quite becomes successful. But in could, in the future! But that's what peop…
I've been to Brazil close to a dozen times, both for business and for adventure travel (kitesurfing and paragliding). I love the country and the people and have a lot of friends there. I find most Americans overestimate how 'dangerous' Brazil seems to be, based on hearsay. In Brazil I rarely meet other Americans, but do meet lots of adventurous Europeans and others who also love this huge, beautiful, diverse—and of c…
> I find most Americans overestimate how 'dangerous' Brazil seems to be Similar experience traveling to Mexico, felt safer walking around Merida & Progresso (on the Yucatan) at night than I feel walking around lots of US cities during the day.
I married a Brazilian, but I probably have some misinformed thoughts Economic — I think it probably has the most potential of any country out there, except maybe India. A bit too protectionist, I don't understand why taxes on electronics are so expensive when Brazil doesn't produce them at home, as well as food being so expensive, or taxing cheap Chinese e-commerce sites when people don't have much money in the first…
See, you have a protectionist response to a problem, no wonder why others might be protectionist too.
I read a lot of economics blogs. A lot of them seem to have the joke, "Brazil is the country of the future, and it always will be!" The meaning is that Brazil should be a more successful country. Great location, favorable demographics, lots of natural resources, peaceful neighbors, large population, mostly stable government. But it just never quite becomes successful. But in could, in the future! But that's what peop…