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I'm brazilian and I don't think that its a WOHOO act or something. It's just that US and EU governments are so full of interests(and shit) that it looks good.

We don't have a big(and stupid) elite like the US does, so things stay reasonable.

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> We don't have a big(and stupid) elite

Can I also get some of that stuff you're smoking? It looks awesome, dude!

Wait until subverting your government gets a bit more lucrative. Then, enjoy the ride :-)

I think that Brazil is anything but immune to money in politics:

http://www.economist.com/node/15580390

"Brazil is probably no more corrupt than other countries of similar size and wealth. It came out better than China and India and a long way ahead of Russia in the latest index of perceptions of corruption compiled by Transparency International, a German NGO. Brazil is blessed with competitive and aggressive media and tenacious institutions that investigate such scandals, revolving around the public-prosecutor’s office, a semi-autonomous part of the federal government and its local equivalents. This scrutiny has a price: the government thinks that another watchdog, the audit tribunal, is holding up spending on infrastructure unnecessarily."

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