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The Documentary Podcast

What Went Wrong with Brazil?

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

During Brazil’s boom years the country's rising economy created a new middle class of gigantic proportions - tens of millions escaping from poverty. Brazil felt confident and even rich enough to bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. But then the economy turned. In the last two years the country has endured its worst recession on record. Where did it all go wrong?

Transcript

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0:00.0

So now we're arriving at Daya's house. We're right at the side of a motorway here.

0:07.0

You can hear the traffic.

0:09.0

And there's a cage full of beautiful coloured canaries. One, two, three, there's probably about two dozen canaries

0:16.4

here jumping around in the cage. I'm David Baker and for the documentary on the BBC World Service this week I've come to Brazil

0:27.3

Brazil is the B of the bricks

0:29.7

Five countries that back in 2001 were tipped to be the future

0:33.4

powerhouses of the developing world. It has a population of 200

0:37.6

million people and massive natural resources and in the first decade of

0:42.0

the century it experienced an economic boom which pulled

0:45.4

tens of millions of its citizens out of poverty. People like Day of the era.

0:50.0

O'i? Hey, right. Right.

0:54.0

You're guys,

0:55.0

Now, I'm gonna guys,

0:58.0

Daya is a wonderfully energetic 40-something woman

1:01.0

whose smile was only just brighter than the magenta top she was wearing

1:05.1

as she welcomed us to her home in a poor part of Rio de Janeiro.

1:08.3

She says we do kind of a lot of works here and the walls are bare concrete,

1:14.3

there's tile stairs coming up and coming up to the surface floor.

1:20.6

And this is the crash. And this is the crash.

1:25.0

There's a lot of it.

1:29.0

There's loads of kids. We've just been visited by...

1:30.0

Bresin' Giffis,

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