How Powerful Is Brazil?

• published: 21 Feb 2015
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Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Brazil is the largest power in Latin America, but it may have just lost sight of becoming a serious, global superpower due to a recent downturn in their economy. So how powerful is Brazil? Learn More: Comparing Brazilian states with countries: Compare-cabana http://www.economist.com/content/compare-cabana The notion that Brazil is in the vanguard of a group of emerging countries on their way to economic superpower-dom is so widely accepted as to have become trite. But how far along this road is Brazil? What is Brazil's army for? http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2010/09/brazils_military "Spend any time in Brazil and you will get used to hearing the impending football World Cup (in 2014) and Olympics (in 2016) used as justification for all manner of boondoggles." Brazil Military Drills to Defend Amazon http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/world/americas/brazil-military-drills-to-defend-amazon-.html Brazil's army is deploying troops this month to the far reaches of the Amazon in a military exercise simulating a foreign invasion of the rain forest, focusing attention on sensitivity over sovereignty in a region rising in importance as a strategic pillar of Latin America's largest economy. Brazil scales back Carnival festivities as drought and weak economy persist http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/11/brazilian-cities-scale-back-carnival-drought-economy "Severe drought and an ailing economy have forced cities and towns across Brazil to abandon or scale back their plans for Carnival, which is due to start on Friday." Watch More: How Powerful Is China? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qaoz_eXM4k Subscribe to TestTube Daily! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml _________________________ TestTube's new daily show is committed to answering the smart, inquisitive questions we have about life, society, politics and anything else happening in the news. It's a place where curiosity rules and together we'll get a clearer understanding of this crazy world we live in. Watch more TestTube: http://testtube.com/testtubedailyshow/ Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testtubenetwork TestTube on Twitter https://twitter.com/TestTube Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/TraceDominguez TestTube on Facebook https://facebook.com/testtubenetwork TestTube on Google+ http://gplus.to/TestTube Download the New TestTube iOS app! http://testu.be/1ndmmMq Special thanks to Evan Puschak for hosting TestTube! Check Evan out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter/media