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...spawned a quasi-feudal class system that made Brazil a stained paradise in the 20th century: a country with endless beaches, heavenly climate and sensual bossa nova culture, but also appalling poverty, social inequality and military dictatorship. By the 1980s, the country was mired in what Sotero recalls as fracassomania, an obsession with its failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Dreams Realized, Brazil Takes the Spotlight | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

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