"Why Brazil needs a new federal pact"
Author: Aspásia Camargo | Published in 1993
In the beginning we underestimated the real scale of the Brazilian crisis. Perplexed, we lived through successive phases, each of which revealed isolated facets of the same underlying problem. It was only after 15 long years of anguished incomprehension that we discovered finally that the whole building was collapsing. It was our model of development, with which we had been so closely associated for so long, that was coming to an end.