When I tell people I'm from Brazil, everyone ask me about the World Cup. And yeah, I'm aware about the importance of this event, but the world isn't aware about the current situation of my country.People are surprised when I tell them about the social problems in Brazil. Most of them don't have enough information about the protests that are happing since the last year. They imagine a Brazil with a lot of samba, beautiful women, incredible beaches and football. They don't know about the homeless population, lack of infrastructure in hospitals, difficulty of access to information and, of course, the corruption.Since I am travelling around the world, I have the opportunity to understand the real situation of the countries I am in. It was amazing to know how most of the population hates to talk about the communism period in Romania, cause I normally identify with left-wing politics. I was really happy yesterday night, when I could see the Egyptian population celebrating with flags and fireworks the election of the new president, after all the fighting during the Arabic Spring. Now I also want to show the Brazilians social problems to the rest of the world. Not because I don't want the World Cup or the Olympic Games in my country, they are not the real issue. The point is that the Brazilian population is unique. Besides all our history of exploration, we keep being the happiest and more contagious nation in the world. And it happens just because we learned how to grow when we are sad. In the words of my Romanian buddy, "Brazilians are full of life!'. O PT tem problemas.Alguns graves; alguns incompreensiveis; alguns constrangedores ate para o maisferrenho militante. Nenhuma reflexao honesta sobre a realidade do partido podeprescindir de colocar o dedo na propria ferida e tentar entender, afinal, ondee que estao errando.Esabido que, para conquistar a venerada governabilidade, o PT precisou apertarmuitas maos, sorrir amarelo e posar abracado com aquilo que de mais deploravelexiste no cenario politico. Adversarios historicosviraram aliados de ocasiao e vice-versa, numa danca macabra que invariavelmenteofuscaria as diferencas ideologicas. Ainda que uma grande parcela do eleitoradopareca nao se importar com isso, ha uma fracao que se importa - e, mesmo quematematicamente insignificante, nao sao poucos os que, decepcionados, acabam seafastando. Tenho a impressao que um dos grandes equivocos do PT nos ultimosanos e ignorar essas pessoas.Porque, no fim dascontas, esses sao os caras que acreditam no PT.Eusou um desses caras.Naocarrego bandeiras, nao uso adesivos, nao costumo falar abertamente sobre minhaspreferencias partidarias - embora minhas posicoes politicas sejam bastanteevidentes.Mas,la no fundo, acredito no PT. Porque, apesar de tudo, e inegavel que, entreerros e acertos, o PT colocou em acao um grande projeto de desenvolvimentosocial. Isso significa fazer politica para o Brasil, e nao para meia duzia debrasileiros ja substancialmente favorecidos. Eu poderia citar a expansao doBolsa Familia, o ProUni, o Mais Medicos e uma porcao de outras iniciativas -mas creio que elas ja sao razoavelmente conhecidas por qualquer um que tenha umminimo referencial de realidade (ou seja, guiam-se por qualquer outra coisa quenao