ABSTRACT
Brazil's great change, just as it was about to begin, turned into frustration. Fate had woven a plot that no novelist could have written with dramatic impact. An extraordinary social cauldron of immense reserves and riches, a continent unto itself, a Brazil of many diverse Brazils. There is the state of Sao Paulo, producing computers, planes, and automobiles, mastering state-of-the-art technologies, with farms as productive as the most efficient in the world. Sao Paulo itself has all the characteristics of an industrialized country. It has the wealth, opulence, and pride to compare itself with any great country in the world. When the new constitution is adopted in 1987, political democracy will be fully consolidated and the guarantees of civil, political, economic, and social rights will be consonant with the degree of development we wish to reach in the next few decades.
