Sustainable development

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"Brazil´s Elites Fly Above Their Fears"

[...]
Despite a lackluster economy, a $2 billion-a-year security industry is
thriving across Brazil. Brazilians are armoring and bulletproofing an
estimated 4,000 cars a year, twice as many as in Colombia, which is in the
midst of a 38-year-old civil war. A wealthy Sao Paulo businessman, who spoke
on the condition his name be withheld, said he allows his daughter to boogie
at nightclubs only under the eyes of a commando turned bodyguard. In a city
where the wealthy are known for ostentation, many are now buying low-profile
economy cars to fool kidnappers and thieves.
[...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42332-2002May31.html

-Frank G.

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