Elections in Brazil are a joke. Everyone knows who will win in advance. Racism is rampant. African-Brazilians are treated as second class citizens. Life is cheap.
Women give birth on sinks in public hospitals.
The sick die waiting in hospital queues before they see a doctor. The police is corrupt and crimminal. The education system is in tatters. People are starving to death in some of the poorer states in Brazil. The Brazilian electorate, it seems, has a lot of faith in the magic of Cardoso's Plano Real, the economic reform programme that slashed Brazil's 2,400 per cent inflation.