“Brazil’s best kept secret is one of our country’s greatest shortcomings.”
Our greatest shortcoming is this urge for diversity — everyone doing his own thing without regard of the overall welfare of the nation. Diversity is disunion. For a country, the size of ours, this is national suicide.
You really need to go back and read Adam Smith, the book was called "Wealth of Nations".
Then read up a little on the "successes" of centrally controlled economies.