Brazillionaires by Alex Cuadros Summary
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Dive into Brazil's shadowy billionaire class where corruption meets capitalism. Endorsed by The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin as "wild and richly reported," Brazillionaires reveals how the ultra-wealthy shaped a nation's rise and spectacular fall - with lessons on power that transcend borders.
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The Gilded Cage: Inside Brazil's World of Extreme Wealth
A silver McLaren races down a Rio highway. The impact is brutal, instantaneous-limbs torn from body, chest split open. Wanderson Pereira dos Santos, a cyclist, dies on the road. Behind the wheel: Thor Batista, twenty-year-old son of Brazil's richest man. Within months, Thor is back racing Ferraris. Wanderson is buried in a simple ceremony, forgotten. This isn't just tragedy-it's a mirror reflecting Brazil's soul. In this country of 200 million, justice wears different faces for different people. Wealth doesn't just buy comfort; it purchases immunity, opportunity, even life itself. This collision captures something essential about modern Brazil: a nation where extreme inequality isn't a bug in the system but a fundamental feature, where the distance between penthouse and favela measures not just meters but entire universes of possibility.
The Invisible Oligarchs Who Own Everything
The Dam That Drowned a Culture
The Media Mogul Who Shaped Reality
The Prosperity Gospel's Billion-Dollar Prophet
The Rise and Spectacular Fall of Brazil's Icarus
The Reckoning That Never Quite Arrives
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