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The success of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil after won its bid for the 2016 Olympic Games, has an important significance beyond of the sport for being the first time that a South American country, a sub continent known as part of Third World, was chosen as host the most important competition sport of the planet, which it has been a privilege of the named “rich countries” since this competition was created.
This decision opens the possibility for that Brazil not be longer a country of the Third World, because since many years ago this country have showed a big industrial and commercial development, in addition the tourism as a strong attraction and recently as an emerging oil nation after the discoveries of oilfield with potential of 80 billions of barrels of oil.
But this prosperity of Brazil contrasts with the poverty of its inhabitants, which is still significant and manifests in poverty neighborhoods as situated in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, well known as “favelas”, which represents the face of the poverty in Brazil, country where are people of the diverse origins as Europeans, afro and natives who does this country a multicultural nation.
If the leaders of this country could that the progress and resources would be distributes toward the most poorer people with effective politics, Brazil could pass to the group the development countries and be a example for other countries of South America. This success could be a good start for the world stars to see to South America not as banana countries which does the backyard of United States, but emerging nations with great potential human and commercial.
Source: examiner.com.
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