It is impossible to ignore a nation of 206 million people with a Gross Domestic

Product of over TWO TRILLION (US dollars). Likewise, Brazil itself cannot

ignore far more than SIX MILLION unemployed and nearly SIXTY MILLION

living in poverty. The Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida in Sao Paulo is one of

the largest Roman Catholic churches on the planet. The good news is Brazil has

almost 30,000 kilometers of railways and plenty of clever engineers, so we can be

confident Brazil can figure out how to get pilgrims from the Andes to the Atlantic.