Publisher: A suspicious Brazil

I began to read more often the works of the sociologist Jesse de Souza, mainly because of the reading of one of his articles on the thought of the sociologist Gilberto Freyre. The article I refer to has become emblematic in the studies on the author of Casa Grande & Senzala, although Sobrados and Mocambos is Gilberto's favorite book by Jesse de Souza. But this discussion leaves us to another moment, because we are also writing a scientific article on the subject. I would draw attention, however, to a book recently released by Jessé de Souza, with the suggestive title The Elite of Delay, where the author concludes that Brazil's problem is hatred of the poor, by unraveling the touchstone of the antipopular alliance built in Brazil to preserve the privilege, access to economic and cultural capitals, 20% against 80% excluded. Before leaving home today, 25, I followed the repercussion of an extensive research about the living conditions and expectations of the population of São Paulo. Just as in the 1940s - when the sociologist Josué de Castro denounced the Geography of Hunger - it could be said here in a kind of geography about the life prospects of the population of São Paulo, from the geographic space where it is located . That is, it depends on the gardens. If in Jardim Ângela - one of the poorest neighborhoods on the outskirts - or if in Jardim Paulista, noble neighborhood, middle-upper class.

If the individual lives in Jardim Paulista or Morumbi, he or she may have an average life expectancy of up to 24 years higher than those living on the periphery who are victims of unemployment; without basic sanitation of the residences; more vulnerable to being hit by a stray bullet; with precarious education; without adequate average assistance; "suspects" for the simple fact of being black or poor. In addition, it significantly reduces the life expectancy of the residents of this periphery. According to one of the researchers from the Our São Paulo Network, three questions need to be answered here: a) A few years ago this research was carried out and its historical series only confirms that nothing has changed during those years, which informs that the public power does not did much to change that reality; b) Since São Paulo is the country with the highest GDP in the country, what is happening there in terms of social indicators may perhaps be applied to other regions of the country, which seems to us quite sensible; c) To reverse this situation, public policies should be directed towards balancing this game, that is, making a preferential option for the poor, which in Brazil is a great utopia, since the state apparatus is also controlled by these elites.

He was still a young UFPE student when a fact caught our attention. Recife has one of the best medical centers in the country. I think it's the 3rd best in Brazil. It is located there on Leite Island, a middle-class neighborhood where real estate rents are overvalued. But there, as elsewhere, does not escape the rule of social inequalities in Brazil. Next to this neighborhood is located one of the largest favelas of Recife, in the neighborhood known as Coque. Coming to the end of the Island of Milk, another step and the individual loses 20 years of their life expectancy. That says a lot about our social reality, historically marked by an elite forged in 350 years of slave labor, which has become the most selfish and cruel in the world. According to Jesse, this pact of privilege is built with the decisive support of the middle strata of society, who are the custodians of this detachment from the impoverished. The elite itself, it only looses its "dogs" against the poor, according to their most vile and petty interests.