Corruption, insufficient funds, glaring lack of leadership jeopardize big plans
By Brian Winter
SAO PAULO — It's 8 p.m. at Sao Paulo's sublimely overcrowded international airport and Marvin Curie, seeing all the chairs around him taken, decides to join dozens of other business travelers and sit on the floor. Until, that is, a coffee-colored mystery liquid starts to seep out of a nearby men's room. "Oh, Jesus!" Curie exclaims, scrambling to his feet. He checks the seat of his suit pants for stains — nothing. "I hate this place," sighs the U.S. pharmaceutical executive, gesturing at the peeling paint, the flickering fluorescent lights and, above all, the crowds. "You'd think that a country like Brazil would have fixed this by now."...[continued]
