It wasn’t so long ago that Brazil was the shining light. For a decade this was the emerging economy that everyone envied, a country with many problems, for sure, but a vibrant democracy, endlessly cool with entrepreneurship possibilities. Now, with months to go before it hosts the Olympics, the country is in chaos; the Rio 2016 infrastructure and political system in a mess. President Dilma Rousseff is on the verge of impeachment. Supporters and detractors take to the streets.
Luiz Eduardo Soares is well placed to explain and illustrate. A political scientist, activist and briefly national security chief, he casts a melancholic gaze at Brazil’s most famous city, Rio de Janeiro – “Extreme City”, as he labels it in the subtitle.
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